According to the portal, YouTube users started having difficulties uploading videos to some browsers. gHacks. Judging by feedback from victims, the issue affects users of Firefox, Vivaldi, Opera and other browsers.
According to the source, when opening a YouTube video in these browsers, users encounter a black screen for a few seconds before the page loads and the content plays. However, this problem does not occur in all users.
The reasons for the delay are still unknown, but there are some ways to solve it. For example, you can try opening YouTube in Incognito mode or watching videos on your mobile device. Users are also advised to change the User Agent parameter that identifies the browser.
This is supposedly how YouTube fights against users who have ad blockers built into their browsers. To do this, Google added a special line to the code that slows down page loading by 5 seconds.
Google, the owner of YouTube, has not yet made a statement about this situation.
Previously on YouTube I started to fight with fakes generated by neural networks.