db0 to TechnologyEnglish • 6 months agoYoutube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.old.reddit.comexternal-linkmessage-square468fedilinkarrow-up12.69Karrow-down153cross-posted to: bluemix[email protected][email protected]mildlyinfuriating[email protected]
arrow-up12.64Karrow-down1external-linkYoutube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.old.reddit.comdb0 to TechnologyEnglish • 6 months agomessage-square468fedilinkcross-posted to: bluemix[email protected][email protected]mildlyinfuriating[email protected]
minus-squareJohannolinkfedilinkEnglish20•6 months agoI noticed logging out of your YouTube account helps. I just opened a private window in Firefox.
minus-square@buddascrayonlinkEnglish19•edit-26 months agoThis actually helps with a lot of things on YouTube lately. It is slowly devolving into a truly crappy site.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•6 months agoblocking youtube cookies makes a lot of their shenanigans go away :) But yeah, any site that tells me what browser I have to use instantly goes on my shitlist. That isn’t how this works.
I noticed logging out of your YouTube account helps.
I just opened a private window in Firefox.
This actually helps with a lot of things on YouTube lately. It is slowly devolving into a truly crappy site.
blocking youtube cookies makes a lot of their shenanigans go away :)
But yeah, any site that tells me what browser I have to use instantly goes on my shitlist. That isn’t how this works.