Edit: Replies to this thread indicate this is not fully correct as it exists on all browsers; and is likely an ad thing.
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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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
Oh they think that delay in the beginning is malicious .
I noticed a huge drop in bandwidth until I logged out of YouTube. This was a onetimer however.