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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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[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 129 points 11 months ago

It could literally be a minute wait & I still wouldn't use Chrome.

[-] ericisshort@lemmy.world 71 points 11 months ago

Google heard you and have increased the Firefox delay to 1m 30s. Would you please consider using Chrome now please?

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 48 points 11 months ago

Best I can do is boycott YouTube.

[-] Damage@slrpnk.net 16 points 11 months ago

Piped-bot now my best friend

[-] Xabis@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I swear every time i try to use those links from the piped bot, the content either never loads or has severe buffering problems.

[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 11 months ago

You need to change your instance. Next time you face this, go to preferences and try changing the instance.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I didn't know you could do that with piped, thanks

[-] pirat@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Where would one find that bot?

[-] Damage@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 months ago

On here

[-] pirat@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Oh, the one that finds every YouTube link and comments a piped link in some communities? Yeah, I find that bot very useful too!

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

Ranting on Lemmy about a company while being addicted to (one of) their products seems to be much more effective, according to other comments in this thread. /s

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Helpful comment!

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago

The only helpful thing to do is stopping using YT, if you think they behave in an unrespectufl way. Complaining/ranting on Lemmy is going to be exactly as helpful as my previous comment. But, hey, who cares? I don't even use it. Literally, not my problem.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

What are we supposed to complain about then?

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago

I didn't say you shouldn't complain. I said that doing it is useless. Stop using YT if you want to send a message or just deal with it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I'm gonna boycott and complain.

[-] bradv@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

Edge would like a word

[-] db2@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

Sigma Edging

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