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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.

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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.

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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Ok so this is just client side I’d imagine I’d be pretty easy to make an addon that removes the code
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  That’s not the point.

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