▲ 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
[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (2 children) Begun, the Chrome spoof wars have. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago Just use Invidious with LibRedirect. If everyone spoofs their user-agent to Firefox, Google will say 'No one uses Firefox' permalink fedilink source parent [–] dan@upvote.au 10 points 2 years ago If everyone spoofs the Chrome user agent, they're going to think that fewer and fewer people are using Firefox on YouTube, which is not ideal :( permalink fedilink source parent
[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago Just use Invidious with LibRedirect. If everyone spoofs their user-agent to Firefox, Google will say 'No one uses Firefox' permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dan@upvote.au 10 points 2 years ago If everyone spoofs the Chrome user agent, they're going to think that fewer and fewer people are using Firefox on YouTube, which is not ideal :( permalink fedilink source parent