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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)

submitted 2 years ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] umbraroze@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

If Chrome is known for one thing, it's absurd User-Agent strings. Why not make it even more absurd???

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 (Ahahaha; Fuck you Google; This is actually) Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0

[–] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 9 points 2 years ago

Did not notice it today, but I am running ublock origin and they got my back.

[–] SacrificedBeans@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

I noticed a delay on Opera with uBlock. I attributed it to invisible fights between the adblock and youtube. But idk if that's relevant, I think Opera GX is chromium based.

[–] wavebeam@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

i was wondering about this! very dumb.

[–] HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social 8 points 2 years ago

@db0

This is starting to get into the antitrust arena. DOJ needs to take action.

[–] erranto@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

They have all the decision makers in their payrolls. They will stop at nothing !

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

Use Invidious or Piped in combination with LibRedirect, that will solve the issue

[–] 271apple@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

Bro.....

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Honestly thought this was a glitch because it has happened before where youtube would freeze, usually from some backend error, and the whole page wouldn't load.

Really getting desperate lol.

[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I'm not seeing any delays, 5 second or otherwise, when using Firefox.

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