• HKPiax@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I love Firefox, but I can’t shake the feeling that it is slower on YouTube. My tinfoil hat theory is that Google somehow throttles YouTube on Firefox.

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      5 months ago

      I’m pretty sure someone discovered that is true recently, but can’t be assed to try to find it right now.

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      5 months ago

      Same happens with Safari. The page loads in a weird funky way, video sorta first and then comments and suggestions many seconds later.

      On Chrome on the exact same computer it’s instant.

      They’re doing it on purpose.

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      5 months ago

      For YouTube on IOS, I use Brave. It does a decent (but not perfect) job of hiding ads on YT.

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      5 months ago

      Do you use YouTube so much that a small performance difference on a single Site has an influence on your browser choice?

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      5 months ago

      You haven’t experienced slow until you try to take Firefox through Google Cloud Console or Search Tools. 15 seconds in Chrome, somehow turns into 3 minutes in Firefox, funny how it does that.

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      Ironically I use a chrome type browser for YouTube and mail checking only. This is also the only browser in which I am logged in with my Google account.

      My main Firefox is for everything else including search.

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      Google somehow throttles YouTube on Firefox.

      Because they do. A while back, it was discovered they were injecting delays if they detected Firefox as your user agent.