Last boost: oh, I just thought that to work around the adblock-blocking, something in Firefox or the uBlock Origin was just slow, but that is, in fact, just an added timeout for 5s just for Firefox on YouTube.

Good job, Google! I've recently started to listen to the Internet History Podcast (thanks, @Schepp for the recommendation), and oh how similar these tactics are to what MS did employ in the 90s.

Don't be evil — be chaotic evil, I guess.