YouTube videos taking longer to load on Firefox? This is the reason

Clearing all the confusion around YouTube deliberately causing 5 seconds delay before video pages load, Google’s streaming giant has now come forward to state that intentional delay is indeed part of the company’s broader strategy to counter the use of ad blockers on its platform.

In recent days, YouTube users have raised concerns about YouTube inserting a deliberate five-second delay before video pages load, particularly affecting those using ad blockers on Mozilla’s Firefox and occasionally other browsers like Chrome and Edge. The frustrated users took it to various discussion platforms to express their anger over the delay in video loading in YouTube.