If you are using the open source Firefox web browser to browse YouTube and watch its videos, then you might have noticed that there is an artificial delay
Google slows down Firefox users when watching YouTube…
First thing that comes to mind is user agent spoofer.
Anyway I say let them, it’s their company with userbase content and it’s based in US. They can do whatever they want with it because terms of service.
I can just look at my sexy John Oliver poster on the wall for 30 min and replace their service.
If we all go ahead and spoof our user agents to Chrome, Google will say ‘No one uses Firefox’. Use better solutions like Invidious and Piped in combination wit LibRedirect instead.
Do these pass through the user agent to YouTube? Otherwise they’ll have the same issue with Firefox being underrepresented.
First thing that comes to mind is user agent spoofer. Anyway I say let them, it’s their company with userbase content and it’s based in US. They can do whatever they want with it because terms of service. I can just look at my sexy John Oliver poster on the wall for 30 min and replace their service.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Piped is not blocked on my school/work wifi and looks better than invidious.
LibRedirect is Awesome!
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Yeah cheers. I’ve been using Invidious and NewPipe for a while now…:-)
Do these pass through the user agent to YouTube? Otherwise they’ll have the same issue with Firefox being underrepresented.
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I was replying to this part of the comment:
If the alternatives don’t use a Firefox user-agent, it’ll also have the same effect in reducing the amount of Firefox traffic in their logs.
I edited my comment a bit to clarify :)
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Wow! I thought it was a bug, but that code does it intentionally. Amazing.
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It’s actually how the discovered this, user agent was changed to chrome and it was no longer slowed down