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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 1 year ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] sulgoth@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This sounds like something that would be in the back end so likely not. But if spoofing user agents fixes the problem then I'd say it's evidence enough to warrant a deeper look.

[–] tegs_terry 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that easy to do?

[–] Senshi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Yes. User Agent is a http header that is part of every request you send to a server. As such, it is 100% client side and it can be whatever you want, it's just a text string. For layman users, I'd recommend using an addon for it, e.g. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/

Of course, you can also change the user agent string in the browser config manually. The official Mozilla support page describes the process in detail: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-reset-default-user-agent-firefox

[–] rdri@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When they decide to do tricks in the backend differently between browsers, there will be ways to overcome that.