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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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[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It's apparently not even subtle enough to make that claim, it checks the useragent and sleeps for 5 seconds if it's not Chrome.

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

I was wondering why YouTube started taking a while to load pages in the last couple weeks. Fucking Google, pulling this shit.

[–] funnystuff97@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not that I don't believe you, but do you have a source for that?

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's discussed in the firefox sub (link)

EDIT: There are some claims that this is related to anti-adblock.

[–] spader312@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If changing your user agent to Chrome on Firefox fixes it that justification won't fly