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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] 48 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Best I can do is boycott YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Piped-bot now my best friend

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I swear every time i try to use those links from the piped bot, the content either never loads or has severe buffering problems.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You need to change your instance. Next time you face this, go to preferences and try changing the instance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I didn't know you could do that with piped, thanks

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

Where would one find that bot?

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

On here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Oh, the one that finds every YouTube link and comments a piped link in some communities? Yeah, I find that bot very useful too!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ranting on Lemmy about a company while being addicted to (one of) their products seems to be much more effective, according to other comments in this thread. /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Helpful comment!

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

The only helpful thing to do is stopping using YT, if you think they behave in an unrespectufl way. Complaining/ranting on Lemmy is going to be exactly as helpful as my previous comment. But, hey, who cares? I don't even use it. Literally, not my problem.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What are we supposed to complain about then?

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

I didn't say you shouldn't complain. I said that doing it is useless. Stop using YT if you want to send a message or just deal with it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I'm gonna boycott and complain.