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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.

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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.

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

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Not happening for me currently, but that definitely sounds like something Google would do. Good thing Firefox lets you easily change your user agent.

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