▲ 1046 ▼ YouTube is reportedly slowing down videos for Firefox users (www.androidauthority.com) submitted 2 years ago by dvdnet89@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.ml 143 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] phx@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 years ago (1 child) Easy enough to test though. Load the page with a UA changer and see if it still shows up when Firefox pretends to be Chrome permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago* (1 child) The video in the linked article does just that. The page takes 5 seconds to load the video, the user changes the UA, they refresh the page and suddenly the video loads instantly. I would have liked to see them change the UA back to Firefox to prove it's not some weird caching issue though permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] phx@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago Yeah, and also Edge or an older version of Chrome etc just to be sure. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago* (1 child) The video in the linked article does just that. The page takes 5 seconds to load the video, the user changes the UA, they refresh the page and suddenly the video loads instantly. I would have liked to see them change the UA back to Firefox to prove it's not some weird caching issue though permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] phx@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago Yeah, and also Edge or an older version of Chrome etc just to be sure. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] phx@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago Yeah, and also Edge or an older version of Chrome etc just to be sure. permalink fedilink source parent