Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.world – 2622 points – 11 months agoold.reddit.com472Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentIt's apparently not even subtle enough to make that claim, it checks the useragent and sleeps for 5 seconds if it's not Chrome.I was wondering why YouTube started taking a while to load pages in the last couple weeks. Fucking Google, pulling this shit.Not that I don't believe you, but do you have a source for that?It's discussed in the firefox sub (link) EDIT: There are some claims that this is related to anti-adblock.If changing your user agent to Chrome on Firefox fixes it that justification won't fly
It's apparently not even subtle enough to make that claim, it checks the useragent and sleeps for 5 seconds if it's not Chrome.I was wondering why YouTube started taking a while to load pages in the last couple weeks. Fucking Google, pulling this shit.Not that I don't believe you, but do you have a source for that?It's discussed in the firefox sub (link) EDIT: There are some claims that this is related to anti-adblock.If changing your user agent to Chrome on Firefox fixes it that justification won't fly
I was wondering why YouTube started taking a while to load pages in the last couple weeks. Fucking Google, pulling this shit.
Not that I don't believe you, but do you have a source for that?It's discussed in the firefox sub (link) EDIT: There are some claims that this is related to anti-adblock.
It's discussed in the firefox sub (link) EDIT: There are some claims that this is related to anti-adblock.
It's apparently not even subtle enough to make that claim, it checks the useragent and sleeps for 5 seconds if it's not Chrome.
I was wondering why YouTube started taking a while to load pages in the last couple weeks. Fucking Google, pulling this shit.
Not that I don't believe you, but do you have a source for that?
It's discussed in the firefox sub (link)
EDIT: There are some claims that this is related to anti-adblock.
If changing your user agent to Chrome on Firefox fixes it that justification won't fly