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db0 to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.

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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.

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    19•2 years ago

    Seems that FF is not the target:

    https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/17zq1jj/youtube_is_reportedly_slowing_down_videos_for/ka0utpq/

    Why would they spend resources to enrage 3% (at most) of their users?

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        3•2 years ago

        There are none.

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            One is based on Mozilla, another one barely works.

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        I mean, safari exists

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        5•2 years ago

        But the title explicitly talks about FF.

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      Don’t try to bring logic into today’s two minutes of hate.

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