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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. (old.reddit.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 134 points 9 months ago (1 children)

this isn't much different than when microsoft added code specifically to break windows 3.1 when run under dr-dos instead of their own ms-dos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code

[–] [email protected] 73 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And it cost them 280 million in the 90s ouch

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

Something tells me they survived.