Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox
Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox

Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.

Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. The slow down is 5 secs according to the video.
Update 1: Safari faces the same treatment
Update 2: Google confirms 5 sec delays for ad-block user
I dont believe this will have the desired affect Google thinks it will. I, personally, will never buy Premium or switch to Chrome without an AD block. If anything, I will just download via linux or just not watch Youtube anymore.
I have been a premium user for years. Mostly because I was using Google music before. With all this crap they are pulling, I cancelled. I cannot support this anymore.
Ever since I discovered Piped and LibreTube, I never looked back.And I used premium for years.
If only there was an easy way to selfhost piped or viewtube...
I swear there would be more instances if they made an easy step by step guide but I guess that's life when you choose FOSS...
Piped is just too inconsistent for me. I gave it a solid month or two, but half the time I open it up none of the instances are loading any videos. Eventually I gave up and looked into other options, ended up using FreeTube.
Could someone please give me a rundown of how these work/if they have mobile apps? I've been paying for premium pretty much since Vanced was killed (and also before I found Vanced) and really the only thing that's stopped me from using a YouTube mirror is the lack of good mobile applications.
It's possibly dedicated to messing around for people testing firefox after the news.
To be clear, is this delay skipped for subscribers?
*effect
But, yes, me too.
I watch interesting vids people link back on occasion but have left it as a service I would browse and engage with and let me tell you, life got a lot better.