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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year 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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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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    Google heard you and have increased the Firefox delay to 1m 30s. Would you please consider using Chrome now please?

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      Best I can do is boycott YouTube.

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        Piped-bot now my best friend

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          I swear every time i try to use those links from the piped bot, the content either never loads or has severe buffering problems.

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            You need to change your instance. Next time you face this, go to preferences and try changing the instance.

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              I didn’t know you could do that with piped, thanks

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          Where would one find that bot?

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            On here

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              Oh, the one that finds every YouTube link and comments a piped link in some communities? Yeah, I find that bot very useful too!

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        Ranting on Lemmy about a company while being addicted to (one of) their products seems to be much more effective, according to other comments in this thread. /s

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          Helpful comment!

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            The only helpful thing to do is stopping using YT, if you think they behave in an unrespectufl way. Complaining/ranting on Lemmy is going to be exactly as helpful as my previous comment. But, hey, who cares? I don’t even use it. Literally, not my problem.

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              What are we supposed to complain about then?

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                I didn’t say you shouldn’t complain. I said that doing it is useless. Stop using YT if you want to send a message or just deal with it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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                  I’m gonna boycott and complain.

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      Edge would like a word

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        Sigma Edging

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