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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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[-] ComradeWeebelo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If this is true the crowd on here that often says Firefox is really owned by Google because Google pays Mozilla to have their search engine be the default search engine on Firefox really need to look at their claim and rethink their understanding of how Mozilla and Google interact.

[-] Guster@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not seeing this issue on Firefox?

[-] northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Here is a link of someone finding a Timeoutset: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/whenever_i_open_a_youtube_video_in_a_new_tab_its/k9w3ei4/

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[-] corey389@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I feel like Reddit is doing the same shit.

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