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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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Invidious and Piped fix this issue. You can use LibRedirect to automatically redirect all YouTube links to Invidious or Piped.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

there's no slowdowns on freetube either

[–] zingo 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Going with freetube desktop app (flatpak) on Linux.

No slowdown here.

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