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Edit: Replies to this thread indicate this is not fully correct as it exists on all browsers; and is likely an ad thing.

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[–] superb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

If the person who tweeted this scrolled down in the hackernews thread, they’d see this code was misinterpreted. It’s part of an anti Adblock script that runs 5s after page load. Still shitty, but less insidious

[–] HeChomk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't use the youtube website. On any browser. Use freetube instead, if your situation and use case allows it. No Google bullshit required. Loads fast, no ads, no tracking. Fully self contained.

[–] Virkkunen@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I really appreciate you saying "if your situation and use case allows it". I'm sick of people "suggesting" these kind of things by just saying "don't do this" "stop doing that" while completely ignoring that not everyone has the same use cases, preferences and possibilities for such.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Whoever posted this is not a programmer. Does no conditional on that code so it would run on every browser on every session so where's the check for Firefox?

Unless they are claiming that it is injected at runtime. But that's easily provable/disprovable with agent spoofing.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

It would not be the first time Google was caught doing this. A couple years ago they were caught breaking apps like google maps if your user agent string wasnt chrome.

But recently I've noticed they can tell regardless of that string. So my guess is that they've hidden fingerprinting code in the chrome browser