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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Huh, I noticed YouTube videos taking a little extra longer to load.

I did too... In Chrome on Linux. I'll check my use agent, it might be set to something else because I use it to check some stuff with developers.