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Google slows down Firefox users when watching YouTube....

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If we all go ahead and spoof our user agents to Chrome, Google will say 'No one uses Firefox'. Use better solutions like Invidious and Piped in combination wit LibRedirect instead.

Do these pass through the user agent to YouTube? Otherwise they'll have the same issue with Firefox being underrepresented.