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mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world to DeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml · 2 years 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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mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world to DeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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    This doesn’t have any impact on video load times on Piped, does it?

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      Why would it? I don’t think your browser makes any direct connection to youtube.com when using Piped, all goes through a proxy server of your choice (hence the name).

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        Just checking

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