I haven't personally verified this as I'm not at a computer, but multiple people in multiple places are saying the same thing. This is fucking insane. First the endless war on UBlock, then the Chromium changes to shut out some blocker functionalities entirely next year, now this?
Something is deeply rotten in recent Google/YouTube policy. I can't imagine that this is legal - how is this not anticompetitive? Google needs to get mega fucked in the press and the courts sooner rather than later.
And I need to switch to Firefox as soon as I get home.
There's a quick fix to this!
With this add-on installed, you can trick YouTube into thinking you are using Chrome.
Once it's installed, navigate to YouTube then click the add-on's icon in the toolbar/overflow menu.

In that menu, click "Override for Domain", then select the "Windows / Chrome" option (the number at the end may change)
Refresh the page, and the delay should be removed.








