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YouTube is reportedly slowing down videos for Firefox users

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YouTube is reportedly slowing down videos for Firefox users

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Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

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Users are reporting that YouTube has begun adding a five second delay when loading a video on non-Chrome browsers like Firefox. Read on!

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I’d seen it in my Firefox/Win10 + uBlockO setup. I just used yt-dlp and then a uBlock “quick fixes” update sorted it.

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