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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 2 years ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The thing that gets me is they think no one will ever find this stuff. There are hundreds of thousands of people (maybe more) who are actively looking ways to block ads and get around this behavior. There's no way it'll ever go unnoticed.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They could literally have used some variance in implementation, server side bandwidth limitations, etc, but THIS is just blatantly obvious

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

I wonder if it's a case of malicious compliance.