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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I noticed logging out of your YouTube account helps.

I just opened a private window in Firefox.

This actually helps with a lot of things on YouTube lately. It is slowly devolving into a truly crappy site.

blocking youtube cookies makes a lot of their shenanigans go away :)

But yeah, any site that tells me what browser I have to use instantly goes on my shitlist. That isn't how this works.