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
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I’ve noticed this happening on Firefox, but not with LibreWolf for some reason
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.
Begun, the Chrome spoof wars have.
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 :(
Just use Invidious with LibRedirect. If everyone spoofs their user-agent to Firefox, Google will say ‘No one uses Firefox’
US DOJ has an anti-trust complaint page… Easy to find via search…
Wouldn’t that… just make me stop visiting YouTube instead of making me stop using Firefox?
I mean, my first reaction when a website is slow is not exactly “maybe I should change browsers”. It’s closer to “maybe I’ll visit a different website”.
What is a user agent changer you’d recommend? When I’m on Linux, I use a Firefox PWA as my YouTube webapp.
I’m pretty sure this is going to directly violate Internet neutrality laws when the FCC votes them back into effect.
And the EU laws.
And my axe.
Well played.
Cries in UK.
Net neutrality is about ISPs though.
Google isn’t an ISP when it comes to youtube. Yes, they are an ISP in the context of Google fiber but this is completely different. It would be a violation of net neutrality if they slowed certain sites to fiber users.
According to Google the delay is to fight against the ad-blocker user.
This is also not the first time Google adds feature that will work better with chrome.
Yeah, user agent switcher set to chrome, made vids load immediately. Shitty move google.
Just use Invidious with LibRedirect. If everyone spoofs their user-agent to Firefox, Google will say ‘No one uses Firefox’
I am not spoofing my user agent and I’m going to continue using FOSS front-ends to access YouTube until an alternative takes off. Fuck you Google.
Didn’t similar shit get Microsoft hit with antitrust lawsuits?
Yeah but that was back when we had a mostly functional government. Times have changed.
Disfunctional goverment benefits the rich almost exclusively. Sad days ahead.
Maybe… Hope someone sues YT :)
Yes… many years later, and while those lawsuits were slowly being resolved, Microsoft was busy laying the groundwork for other bullshit that was unethical but not technically illegal.
If you actually expect a solution in a reasonable amount of time, either invent time travel or spoof Chrome.
Gonna keep talking about Peertube until it starts to take off.
Seriously, how great would it be for your fave youtubers to have their own Peertube instance, and know that your donations go DIRECTLY to support them and maintain their server? With NO advertisements or possibility of Google shutting you down just cuz they dont like you
Your fav youtubers might host their own peertube someday, but there is still a lot of value in the other content that you don’t consume regularly like tutorials or random interesting stuff. Peertube is not the ultimate solution
I’m in full agreement here. I will always try to support the things I follow the most but probably my favorite thing about current media is finding a random person who does something incredibly niche and watching/listening a vid/song or two of theirs. I’ll come every couple of months or so but I’m not consuming their content regularly. Tutorials as you mentioned are a great example of this.
I did the math a year or two that if I paid a single dollar to every YouTuber I watch and musician I listen to on Spotify I would be paying around $400 a month. In an idyllic world I would have a stable job with enough expendable income to make that happen. In this reality I don’t see that as a possibility.
Is this only in certain areas? YouTube is still working fine for me on FireFox.
I’m in America and I haven’t noticed any YT slowdowns.
I think I have some slowdowns FF with unlock Origin in Germany so maybe
I pay for premium (I know)… is it a breach of contract for them to deny equal speeds because of a corporate preference? Is YouTube (and Google) in breach of contract?
I called it. However I didn’t expect them to do it that early.
google’s been messing with firefox on yt for years.
