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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)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I started noticing how sometimes youtube just seemingly refused to load fully on my phone. I thought it was just my crap internet. But since I use Iceraven, a fork of firefox, it seems that may be why.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wonder if this affects Safari too. Videos do seem to have more problems getting started to the point where I usually give up, but I assumed it was my ancient iPad conflict8 g with ever increasing code related to ads