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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)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] flop_leash_973 15 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Not that I think Google is a great company, but why is this on its own proof of anything based on this single persons video evidence? In my single person test I don't see that 5 second delay when using Firefox and browsing around Youtube. Seems far more likely to be an issue with this persons browser setup than something Google did to me.

[–] ItsMeSpez 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This would be a good point if the problem did not immediately go away completely by simply spoofing the user agent. As soon as youtube thinks that the browser accessing it is Chrome, it behaves perfectly well. Note that the actual web engine used to render the page is not different, just the reported web engine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The point is, it has to be reproducible. On a clean FF install on linux, I cannot replicate this. Changing user agent does not affect the page load speed. So there has to be some another aspect, maybe iser's OS configuration or smth that affects this, too.

[–] pahlimur 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I can't reproduce it either. Android Phone, win10 PC, and private browser. All Firefox and uBlock Origin.

I did previously get that "disable it or else" message twice. I just submit feedback that I'd like the link to cancelling my Google services and it goes away for a while. I wonder if just submitting feedback disables the popup because it's instantaneously fixed.

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

Yeah I mean they should include a lot more info: OS (version/build) and FF version/build at least.

Also is nobody saying that of course the second video renders faster because he hits reload and most of the stuff comes from cache? D:

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