YouTube punishes ad-blocker users with slower videos on non-Chrome browsers

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They have a forced 5 second delay before anything actually loads to discourage page scraping

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The slow page loading has been going on for many months, if not over a year. One annoying result I experienced was the video (or ad) began playing before the page finished loading, but none of the controls were visible, so I was unable to stop the video or prevent the audio from playing in the room. There is so many other things loading up on the page, like suggested videos that I rarely want to see.

Page scraping.... does that enable YouTube videos to be seen, many of which were uploaded freely by regular people who intended for their videos to be watched?