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db0toTechnology@lemmy.worldEnglish·11 months ago

Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.

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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.

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db0toTechnology@lemmy.worldEnglish·11 months ago

Posted in r/youtube by u/vk6_ • 9,871 points and 940 comments

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Microsoft got repeatedly hit over this kind of shenanigans in MSIE during and after the anti-trust lawsuit.

Sadly, that was 20 years ago. I’m not having much faith in American justice system doing anything about this nowadays.