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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. (old.reddit.com)

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[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Does not happen for me Safari or Firefox.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

They may not be deploying this to all users

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

What does that mean? If you logout and go anonymous do you still have the issue?

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

It's probably limited to regions rather than user accounts.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

This is testable with vpn

[-] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Possibly. It's impossible to know how they keep track of who to roll it out to. It could be IP-based, or they could put a cookie on your browser that could stick around even after you log out.

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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