db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoYoutube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.old.reddit.comexternal-linkmessage-square483fedilinkarrow-up12.67Karrow-down152
arrow-up12.62Karrow-down1external-linkYoutube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.old.reddit.comdb0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square483fedilink
minus-squareUltraviolet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37arrow-down1·edit-22 years agoIt’s apparently not even subtle enough to make that claim, it checks the useragent and sleeps for 5 seconds if it’s not Chrome.
minus-squareTavarin@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 years agoI was wondering why YouTube started taking a while to load pages in the last couple weeks. Fucking Google, pulling this shit.
minus-squarefunnystuff97@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 years agoNot that I don’t believe you, but do you have a source for that?
minus-squarefestus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-22 years agoIt’s discussed in the firefox sub (link) EDIT: There are some claims that this is related to anti-adblock.
minus-squarespader312@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoIf 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