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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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[–] _thisdot@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it's part of their anti-adblock code. without going into too much details, they can instantly find out whether ad-block is trying to do anything on chrome, but on firefox they need a 5 sec delay

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Which is honestly to Firefox's credit. Making it harder to find out stuff about your browser is a good thing, unless it has to do with feature support.

But the fact that they don't give a shit and are willing to ruin the user experience for it, that's despicable.

[–] DolphinMath@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

I’d be more likely to believe that if spoofing your user agent didn’t immediately fix the issue.