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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox

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Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox

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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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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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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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Not that I know of, sorry! It looks like third-party apps like Newpipe don’t support Chromecast :/

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