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[-] HKPiax@lemmy.world 74 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I love Firefox, but I can’t shake the feeling that it is slower on YouTube. My tinfoil hat theory is that Google somehow throttles YouTube on Firefox.

[-] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 19 points 4 months ago

One thing you can test is to apply a Chrome user-agent on Firefox when visiting YouTube. In my personal experience that actually noticeably improves the situation.

[-] HKPiax@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

That’s super interesting! I’m not versed enough though, do you have like a tutorial you recommend or should I just Google it?

[-] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 8 points 4 months ago

There's a bunch of extensions that allow you to switch user-agent easily, I personally use this one, it includes a list of known strings to choose between as well.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

And to check that it’s working, there are websites you can go to which will tell you what browser they have detected you are using.

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