Youtube has angered many users recently. After the ad blockers were attacked, there are now accusations posted on Reddit and Hacker News condemning them an alleged boycott against some web browsers, with Mozilla Firefox leading the way.

Various users have complained via Reddit and Hacker News that Firefox and other alternative web browsers are a allegedly a deliberate delay of five seconds before pages load videos on YouTube. The platform contacted The Verge to acknowledge that users complaining about the lag are correct, but that the origin is not in the web browser, but rather part of its efforts to crack down on ad blockers across all platforms.

Christopher Lawton, YouTube’s communications manager, wrote in an email that “last week, users using ad blockers may have experienced suboptimal viewing, including loading delays, regardless of the browser they were using,” so they simply disabled the ad blockers. . should solve the problem. However, Lawton himself acknowledges that users “may still experience temporary loading delays” until their browser is updated.

Problems may persist as YouTube continues to improve its ad blocker detection methods. Going by what the video platform says, this means that the detection mechanisms for ad blockers are still under development, and users using a web browser may still experience lag in the near future.

The passage of time showed that YouTube right after other users reported lag in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Additionally, users of Reddit and Hacker News examined the allegedly problematic code to reach their conclusion There is nothing to verify the web browser used, Damiano DeMonte, Mozilla’s senior brand manager, confirmedvia email sent to The Verge.

Aside from the whole YouTube issue and whether or not it’s a Firefox boycott, there’s also the development of v transition from Manifest V2 to Manifest V3 from Google for Chromium browsers in general and Chrome in particular. The search giant announced a year ago that it would extend support for the second version to meet developer demands, but It appears that ad blockers will eventually reduce their radius of action.

YouTube recognizes that its ad-blocking policy seeks to ensure that in any given case users choose one of the two paths it has made available: allow advertising or subscribe to Premium, its plan that allows users to enjoy an ad-free experience . in videos and music and other features like video download.

Finally, these accusations of YouTube boycotting Firefox may be unfounded, but it is no less true that some Google services, such as Docs, work better or at least make it easier to use them fully from Chromium-based browsers, and especially Chrome, where all support is pre-installed out of the box.