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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)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

Not trying to defend Chrome here as I dislike their other behaviours, but just from what's presented in the video, an alternative explanation would be caching. That is, when the reloading is triggered by the switch of user-agent, the cache is reused and thus a shorter load time.

To exclude this effect, the user needs to either

Spoof the user-agent and at the same time clear cache (you can disable cache when reloading through the developer's tool), or
Clear cache, spoof the user-agent to Chrome. Load page, disable the spoofing, reload.

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

Have you seen this?

https://feddit.it/pictrs/image/0e13c670-4966-4073-89df-f042fe9cc6de.webp

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

Yes. I'm not a frontend dev, so not familiar with JS code (let alone an obfuscated fragment), but according to this HN comment, it's used for a different ad block detection function.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If this is true the crowd on here that often says Firefox is really owned by Google because Google pays Mozilla to have their search engine be the default search engine on Firefox really need to look at their claim and rethink their understanding of how Mozilla and Google interact.

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

I feel like Reddit is doing the same shit.

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

I’m seeing this on Safari with the AdGuard content blocker extension as well.

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