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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)

submitted 2 years ago by db0 to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In addition to the fact that I remember this happening several years ago, I'm pretty sure this has been an issue for a while. When I decided to exclusively use Firefox about a year ago, YouTube as a whole would load slowly and it still does.

And I hate the fact that Google knows that they will benefit from this because, unfortunately, a majority of YouTube users are sheeple.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No wonder why YouTube got weird for me

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What if we are already using YouTube premium and have ublock on FF. Would user agent spoof still be needed??

How annoying.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Does not happen for me Safari or Firefox.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The YouTube viewing experience on FF is terrible. I have premium no ads and still manage to break the interface occasionally by clicking a new video or seeking the video playing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Firefox is great for YouTube. Don't support google via premium - those guys aren't exactly short of a dime. Addblockers are flawless.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Any extensions you'd recommend for having Firefox spoof chrome?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Once upon a time, Google wanted to kill the user-agent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Using a completely clean FF profile, in the EU: No delay, just many (irrelevant) ads. And even on my normal profile, with uBlock, I never saw any adblockblockbanner. Is YouTube scared to pull their shit on the EU?

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