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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 年前

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 · 3 年前
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Posted in r/youtube by u/vk6_ • 10,566 points and 944 comments
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    Google has been doing this kind of thing for a while. If you try to use Google Meet in Firefox, you can’t use things like background blurring. Spoofing Chrome works in that situation as well.

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      And the stupid thing is that all I use Chrome for is Meets… And that’s it. Do they really think they win me over?

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        Not you or me. But most people, yeah.

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          That is, as always, the problem: it works for them. The average Joe isn’t going to implement a new filter into ublock…

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      It works for me now. Only took them 8 years

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      How does one “spoof” chrome?

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        You can change your user agent string, the text your browser uses to tell the web site you’re looking at what browser it is, either via your F12 developer tools menu or via an extension.

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