▲ 782 ▼ Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox (old.reddit.com) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by tun@lemm.ee to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world 71 comments fedilink hide all child comments Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. The slow down is 5 secs according to the video. Update 1: Safari faces the same treatment Update 2: Google confirms 5 sec delays for ad-block user
[–] violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) I've noticed this happening on Firefox, but not with LibreWolf for some reason permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Does Librewolf present itself differently or use a different user agent altogether? I could see Librewolf presenting itself as Chromium as a privacy measure and people are saying changing the user agent fixes the issue. EDIT: I've seen this happen on Safari for macOS. Someone at Apple is certainly snitching to their higher-ups, lol. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Does Librewolf present itself differently or use a different user agent altogether? I could see Librewolf presenting itself as Chromium as a privacy measure and people are saying changing the user agent fixes the issue. EDIT: I've seen this happen on Safari for macOS. Someone at Apple is certainly snitching to their higher-ups, lol. permalink fedilink source parent