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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Does changing the user agent fix this? Anyone tried? I keep forgetting to try it myself.

Spoofing = setting user agent

Thank you. I'm an idiot today. Sorry about that.