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Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years ago

YouTube is reportedly slowing down videos for Firefox users

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YouTube is reportedly slowing down videos for Firefox users

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Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years ago

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Users are reporting that YouTube has begun adding a five second delay when loading a video on non-Chrome browsers like Firefox. Read on!

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Easy enough to test though. Load the page with a UA changer and see if it still shows up when Firefox pretends to be Chrome

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