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

I can confirm this. I signed up for the free trial of YT Premium (which I immediately cancelled, but I'll take the three months) but YT seems to be detecting that I'm on Firefox and have Ublock installed, so I'm getting the occasional 5 second forced delay, even though I'm a premium user. (They may not count the trial as being a "true" premium user, I'd suspect.)

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

I'm not seeing this issue on Firefox?

[-] Tygr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I’m seeing this on Safari with the AdGuard content blocker extension as well.

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