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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 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] PoliteGhost 24 points 10 months ago (6 children)

So, how to spoof chrome?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Spoofing the agent only makes it look like Firefox is being used less, and websites will care even less about it.

[–] Sanyanov 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Use extensions that change your user agent

You can find them in add-ons store

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Change browser user-agent https://www.whatismybrowser.com/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Find an extension to change your user agent