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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I was replying to this part of the comment:

If we all go ahead and spoof our user agents to Chrome, Google will say 'No one uses Firefox'.

If the alternatives don't use a Firefox user-agent, it'll also have the same effect in reducing the amount of Firefox traffic in their logs.

I edited my comment a bit to clarify :)