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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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What is the extension they use in the video to spoof Chrome?
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  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/

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