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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year 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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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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1 year ago
It does happen even with YouTube premium, so I guess yes

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