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YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave (9to5google.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

Thanks I'll check that out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.