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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 db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Smacks@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I smell a spicy lawsuit

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One that will outlive Firefox, as this will turn users away while lawyers build a case. Fuckers.

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Firefox isn't going to die because of this. There are already workarounds and even if there weren't, an open source browser isn't dependent on bringing in revenue to stay in development.