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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)
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[-] heygooberman@lemmy.today 8 points 1 year ago

This doesn't have any impact on video load times on Piped, does it?

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

Why would it? I don't think your browser makes any direct connection to youtube.com when using Piped, all goes through a proxy server of your choice (hence the name).

[-] heygooberman@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago

Just checking

this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023
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