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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)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've been noticing this for a while now. I chalked it up to YouTube having ugly code, but now I see that it is simply malicious code.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence*.

  • Except for Google. This is the same company that decided that 'Don't be evil' is inappropriate for them.