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Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."

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[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

If you do change your user agent, I would use an extension that does it only on YouTube domains.

We want independent metrics to show rising Firefox use, not falling.

[-] casmael@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah cool I’ll have a look. Any extensions spring to mind?

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