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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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[–] FontMasterFlex 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How does one "spoof" chrome?

[–] dual_sport_dork 17 points 1 year ago

You can change your user agent string, the text your browser uses to tell the web site you're looking at what browser it is, either via your F12 developer tools menu or via an extension.

[–] scholar 11 points 1 year ago

The most convenient way is with a browser extension that changes your user agent. You can also change it in the developer options of most browsers.