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Changing User-Agent to Google Chrome drastically improves YouTube load times (twitter.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The original thread provides more context. And acc. to a commenter there it's part of some anti-ad blocker code - it builds an HTML fragment that should take 3s, then waits 5s, then checks if the fragment is gone. Another user mentions that "[it tries to detect FF only, not Chrome] Probably because there are other methods for Chrome that don't apply to Firefox."