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-square144linkfedilinkarrow-up1296arrow-down19
arrow-up1287arrow-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-square144linkfedilink
minus-squareUltraviolet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·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-up2·2 years agoI was wondering why YouTube started taking a while to load pages in the last couple weeks. Fucking Google, pulling this shit.
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.