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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. (old.reddit.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Is anyone actually experiencing this? I find it too much of a coincidence that after the second reload, there is another option that shows up, Skip to Highlight, and it seems to belong to SponsorBlock. Which, incidentally, seems to be have experienced performance issues with its API in the past, which is through an external HTTPS query that the change in user agent in the header would also affect: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/issues/1554

[–] db0 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Multiple people have corroborated it and an extension issue wouldn't fix itself on agent change

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm not sure how SponsorBlock is handling it under the hood, but it does communicate with external HTTPS APIs, where user-agent would also be affected, but it could be a case of how different addons are interacting with each other and affecting or flushing active sessions. I'd like to see corroboration from outside of the communities running these addons before I assume it's YouTube legal suddenly forgetting their anti-trust law.

[–] Rai 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m experiencing this. It began happening when they took away “sort by oldest” (which is back now) and made that annoying stupid back glow. I’ve had this happening for a while now and I’m elated there’s a fix.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you have SponsorBlock installed by any chance?

[–] Rai 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I do not, actually! Most of the folks my partner and I watch do fun things for their sponsor stuff (Internet Historian, Internet Comment Etiquitte, OrdinaryThings, YSAC, Papa Meat, etc) so we’ve never installed that. We just skip the boring channels’ sponsored bits.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for the response, it made me read up more on the problem. It seems to be due to code in YouTube's redesign of their engine, Polymer, so it lines up with what you said. The best explanations seem to be these, https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/comment/ka08uqj/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/comment/k9w3ei4/

[–] Rai 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you for some sources! I do indeed use Firefox.

I spoofed to the latest Chrome and it no longer has the delay. This is wild.