I'm not seeing any delays, 5 second or otherwise, when using Firefox.

I regret being complicit in allowing these silicon valley behemoths to reach a point where they're indelibly linked to practically every aspect of the average person's digital life.

At least the Fediverse and Lemmy are showing the way forward.

Use Invidious or Piped in combination with LibRedirect, that will solve the issue

They've done this before, a long time ago, with IE11. For those that only remember its early years, later releases of Internet Explorer were actually decently compliant - but Google still prevented them from accessing places like Google Maps for having improper support. User agent switchers caused it to display perfectly.

I haven't even noticed bc my internet is only 2 Mbps

This is antitrust worthy

What if we are already using YouTube premium and have ublock on FF. Would user agent spoof still be needed??

How annoying.

No wonder why YouTube got weird for me

Does changing the user agent fix this? Anyone tried? I keep forgetting to try it myself.

I’ve been noticing a lot of ‘interesting’ behavior with data-hungry websites when I use more privacy-focused measures lately.

Gmail logs me out of Safari at least weekly now for no apparent reason, other than to inconvenience me.
Gmail also refuses to deliver any emails forwarded through hide my email. They simply do not arrive, not even to spam. I had to start using another email service for hide my email. (Additionally, every email I get from Apple gets tagged with a phishing warning, which is just petty and funny.)
Facebook sends an email every time I log in (once or twice a month) to tell me that Firefox is suspicious because I use ad-blockers and private windows.

Fuck Google

I had a feeling this was the case. Youtube has been painful for the past month now.