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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 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 70 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Google has been doing this kind of thing for a while. If you try to use Google Meet in Firefox, you can’t use things like background blurring. Spoofing Chrome works in that situation as well.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And the stupid thing is that all I use Chrome for is Meets... And that's it. Do they really think they win me over?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not you or me. But most people, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

That is, as always, the problem: it works for them. The average Joe isn't going to implement a new filter into ublock...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How does one "spoof" chrome?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

You can change your user agent string, the text your browser uses to tell the web site you're looking at what browser it is, either via your F12 developer tools menu or via an extension.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

The most convenient way is with a browser extension that changes your user agent. You can also change it in the developer options of most browsers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It works for me now. Only took them 8 years