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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.

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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.

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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Posted in r/youtube by u/vk6_ • 2,935 points and 264 comments
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    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

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      And it cost them 280 million in the 90s ouch

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        Something tells me they survived.

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