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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

User-Agent changer fixes this issue completely for me

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish Mozilla would add the ability to set User-Agent for the different containers they offer in Firefox with their addon. Would be sweet to set it to Chrome in my YouTube container only.

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

How do I learn what you're talking about LoL. Any helpful YouTube channels?

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

Not the person you replied to, but I just searched for "User-Agent changer" and then installed the Firefox extension that it found. When I set it to pretend to be Windows/Chrome my Youtube tabs went back to snappy and responsive.

(link to the one I found: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks I'll check that out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Holy smokes that did the trick. Not that longer loading times were bothering me too much, (It's still less time wasted than ads) but damn it feels nice to load smoothly again.

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

Problem is, it shows the internet that there id a higher share of chromium browsers.
Which is bad.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're showing a google owned website though who cares lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Because most people will apply it globally and will forget about it at some point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So does Invidious