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Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. (old.reddit.com)
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[–] Smacks@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I smell a spicy lawsuit

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

One that will outlive Firefox, as this will turn users away while lawyers build a case. Fuckers.

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Firefox isn't going to die because of this. There are already workarounds and even if there weren't, an open source browser isn't dependent on bringing in revenue to stay in development.