Youtube slowing down play on Firefox. : firefox

[–] UnixWeeb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 10 months ago

I honestly thought I was just having bad luck with Firefox. Whenever it occurs, I take the link and throw it into freetube.

[–] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Here’s the article. He showed in the video, https://www.ghacks.net/2023/11/20/youtube-video-loading-delayed-fix-inside/. I used the uBlock Origin Filter and it works.

[–] drdabbles@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

The video is bunk, the original "analysis" was wrong, they didn't look up what the function actually does, the function is showing up in other browsers. It's pretty clear this is an A/B test rolling out that's fetching something behind the scenes that's broken for a bunch of people.

Jumped to a conclusion without even understanding the subject at hand.

[–] corey389@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Reddit is also slowing down Firefox. This shit needs to stop.

[–] Rooki@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Youtube makes the video stutery too sometimes on my firefox

[–] amotio@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I think they are trying another random testing because this happens to me from time to time on brave browser too.

[+] hiyidef646@sh.itjust.works -8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Advertising your youtube channel should be a bannable offense

[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't think it's op's vid. That's the videos caption.

[–] Norodix@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Plus when the video is this closely related to the topic of the community, I feel like even advertising your own video is okay.

[–] Jako301@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago

Not if you have no idea what you are talking about and are blatantly lying for clicks.

This generic 5s timeout function shows up in other browsers too, not just FF.

[–] hiyidef646@sh.itjust.works -2 points 10 months ago

Doesn't matter