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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 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I haven't even noticed bc my internet is only 2 Mbps

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I regret being complicit in allowing these silicon valley behemoths to reach a point where they're indelibly linked to practically every aspect of the average person's digital life.

At least the Fediverse and Lemmy are showing the way forward.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This is antitrust worthy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I had a feeling this was the case. Youtube has been painful for the past month now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I started noticing how sometimes youtube just seemingly refused to load fully on my phone. I thought it was just my crap internet. But since I use Iceraven, a fork of firefox, it seems that may be why.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Fuck Google

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does changing the user agent fix this? Anyone tried? I keep forgetting to try it myself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The title says so, and the video shows it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What if we are already using YouTube premium and have ublock on FF. Would user agent spoof still be needed??

How annoying.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No wonder why YouTube got weird for me

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In addition to the fact that I remember this happening several years ago, I'm pretty sure this has been an issue for a while. When I decided to exclusively use Firefox about a year ago, YouTube as a whole would load slowly and it still does.

And I hate the fact that Google knows that they will benefit from this because, unfortunately, a majority of YouTube users are sheeple.

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