• HKPiax@lemmy.world
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    5 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.

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

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      5 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.

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

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          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.

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

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

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

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      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.

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      5 months ago

      Do you use YouTube so much that a small performance difference on a single Site has an influence on your browser choice?

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      For YouTube on IOS, I use Brave. It does a decent (but not perfect) job of hiding ads on YT.

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      Ironically I use a chrome type browser for YouTube and mail checking only. This is also the only browser in which I am logged in with my Google account.

      My main Firefox is for everything else including search.

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        That’s a really weird take. Like… what even is the difference supposed to be?

        This sounds more like “everything should be as it was back when <insert arbitrary point in time here>! When there were still Webpages, and we were frolicking about the internet! Until the fire nation attacked Web apps took over!”