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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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[-] umbraroze@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

If Chrome is known for one thing, it's absurd User-Agent strings. Why not make it even more absurd???

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 (Ahahaha; Fuck you Google; This is actually) Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0

[-] SacrificedBeans@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I noticed a delay on Opera with uBlock. I attributed it to invisible fights between the adblock and youtube. But idk if that's relevant, I think Opera GX is chromium based.

[-] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 9 points 11 months ago

Did not notice it today, but I am running ublock origin and they got my back.

[-] HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social 8 points 11 months ago

@db0

This is starting to get into the antitrust arena. DOJ needs to take action.

[-] wavebeam@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

i was wondering about this! very dumb.

[-] erranto@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

They have all the decision makers in their payrolls. They will stop at nothing !

[-] netchami@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

Use Invidious or Piped in combination with LibRedirect, that will solve the issue

[-] 271apple@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

Bro.....

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