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Oh tell me again how it loads faster and takes up less resources (lemmy.ml)
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[–] HKPiax@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure someone discovered that is true recently, but can't be assed to try to find it right now.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 0 points 8 months ago

Google does that a lot with their own web properties. I remember Google Meet didn't support background replacement on Firefox, but switching Firefox's user agent to Chrome suddenly fixed it.

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 0 points 8 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.

[–] Norgur@fedia.io 0 points 8 months ago

Well, Google will probably optimize their shit for their own ~~privacy invasion sniffing tool~~ browser twice as hard as for Firefox and such

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's not tinfoil, they have been caught doing it and they continue to do it. It's a scumbag company.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 0 points 8 months ago

How the fuck they haven't been slapped with an anticompetitive is beyon - oohh right. End stage capitalism

[–] Safipok@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Firefox is good for webpages not web apps

[–] LudwigvanBeethoven@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago

A web app is just a fancy name for a dynamic web page. Change my mind.