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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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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

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This should be illegal, Firefox being their competition (tangentially)
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  It honestly probably is
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    36•1 year ago
    EU might hit them for it. I have no faith that the US government is going to do anything.

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