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[–] mintiefresh 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What if we are already using YouTube premium and have ublock on FF. Would user agent spoof still be needed??

How annoying.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I had a feeling this was the case. Youtube has been painful for the past month now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Once upon a time, Google wanted to kill the user-agent.

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

Does not happen for me Safari or Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

They may not be deploying this to all users

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

The YouTube viewing experience on FF is terrible. I have premium no ads and still manage to break the interface occasionally by clicking a new video or seeking the video playing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Firefox is great for YouTube. Don't support google via premium - those guys aren't exactly short of a dime. Addblockers are flawless.

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

Any extensions you'd recommend for having Firefox spoof chrome?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I can confirm this. I signed up for the free trial of YT Premium (which I immediately cancelled, but I'll take the three months) but YT seems to be detecting that I'm on Firefox and have Ublock installed, so I'm getting the occasional 5 second forced delay, even though I'm a premium user. (They may not count the trial as being a "true" premium user, I'd suspect.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I'm not seeing this issue on Firefox?

[–] northendtrooper 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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