As I said User-Agent switcher for Firefox gets rid of the 5 second wait before the site loads.

Spoken like a cynical back end developer. Communication is key.

Did you tell your friend ads waste far more time than the 3-5 second delay you get on Firefox with ublock? I mean, I get someone would hesitate to install another extension like User-Agent Switcher because you don’t really want to trust it, but even then just using ublock is still faster than watching ads.