Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. The slow down is 5 secs according to the video.
I’m pretty sure this is going to directly violate Internet neutrality laws when the FCC votes them back into effect.
Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox
Submitted 5 months ago by tun@lemm.ee to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/17z8hsz/youtube_has_started_to_artificially_slow_down/
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Carobu@lemmy.world 5 months ago
iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 5 months ago
And the EU laws.
Legolution@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Cries in UK.
KnowledgeableNip@leminal.space 5 months ago
Didn’t similar shit get Microsoft hit with antitrust lawsuits?
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 5 months ago
Maybe… Hope someone sues YT :)
magnetosphere@kbin.social 5 months ago
Yes… many years later, and while those lawsuits were slowly being resolved, Microsoft was busy laying the groundwork for other bullshit that was unethical but not technically illegal.
If you actually expect a solution in a reasonable amount of time, either invent time travel or spoof Chrome.
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ive been noticing this recently too also buffering occasionally on random videos from time to time when im having 0 connectivity issues. This isint going to make the average person thing firefox is bad but rather that youtube is garbage
MooseLad@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m one of 5 people who have premium (I use YouTube Music) and they’re still slowing down videos for me. Also maybe it’s in my head, but I think the Google search has been taking longer too. I’ve noticed some extra loading time that doesn’t show up in Microsoft edge, or if I use duckduckgo/bing from Firefox.
EddieTee77@lemdro.id 5 months ago
I have had random freezing on the mobile Firefox for months now. I typically search in a private tab with a bunch of trackers disabled. If I do the same search in Chrome, Edge, Samsung Internet (in their incognito tabs) the searches load. This seems like a block on Firefox itself
konalt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I was wondering what that was for a few days. I thought it was just uBlock Origin doing its work.
BarterClub@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
This should not be legal.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Fuck Google
Use Invidious or Piped to bypass the ads, tracking as well as the slow down. You can combine it with LibRedirect to automatically redirect all YouTube links to Invidious or Piped. Works like a dream. Another option is FreeTube, it’s a desktop client for YouTube that can also use the Invidious API.
badbytes@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, user agent switcher set to chrome, made vids load immediately. Shitty move google.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Just use Invidious with LibRedirect. If everyone spoofs their user-agent to Firefox, Google will say ‘No one uses Firefox’
pepsison52895@lemmy.one 5 months ago
Is this only in certain areas? YouTube is still working fine for me on FireFox.
Mixel@feddit.de [bot] 5 months ago
I think I have some slowdowns FF with unlock Origin in Germany so maybe
floral_toxicity@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m in America and I haven’t noticed any YT slowdowns.
dnnybrks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I use piped.video/trending as an alternative to YouTube.
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 5 months ago
US DOJ has an anti-trust complaint page… Easy to find via search…
dan1101@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Begun, the Chrome spoof wars have.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Just use Invidious with LibRedirect. If everyone spoofs their user-agent to Firefox, Google will say ‘No one uses Firefox’
dan@upvote.au 5 months ago
If everyone spoofs the Chrome user agent, they’re going to think that fewer and fewer people are using Firefox on YouTube, which is not ideal :(
Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 5 months ago
I called it. However I didn’t expect them to do it that early.
ares35@kbin.social 5 months ago
google's been messing with firefox on yt for years.
Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 5 months ago
Fuck Google, Fuck Youtube, Fuck Alphabet, Honestly just fuck everyone who does this shit
violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I’ve noticed this happening on Firefox, but not with LibreWolf for some reason
Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 months ago
Does Librewolf present itself differently or use a different user agent altogether? I could see Librewolf presenting itself as Chromium as a privacy measure and people are saying changing the user agent fixes the issue.
Carighan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I had this the past ~3 days, but now it’s gone as of yesterday evening.
Octopus1348@thelemmy.club 5 months ago
What is a user agent changer you’d recommend? When I’m on Linux, I use a Firefox PWA as my YouTube webapp.
mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What if I would change the useragent?
Orbituary@lemmy.world 5 months ago
He says that in the comment body.
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ublock origin blocks all ads and their stupid pop-up.
Saigonauticon@voltage.vn 5 months ago
Wouldn’t that… just make me stop visiting YouTube instead of making me stop using Firefox?
I mean, my first reaction when a website is slow is not exactly “maybe I should change browsers”. It’s closer to “maybe I’ll visit a different website”.
hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
CloudTube is the way!
tun@lemm.ee 5 months ago
CloudTube is an alternative online front-end for YouTube icon YouTube. CloudTube provides interfaces to display that data, like a video player, search listings, channel views, and subscription management. It can use either NewLeaf or Invidious icon Invidious instance to initially collect that data.
A hosted CloudTube + NewLeaf is available at tube.cadence.moe for everyone to try. This project organises the repositories CloudTube and NewLeaf. NewLeaf extracts data from YouTube pages.
tun@lemm.ee 5 months ago
According to Google the delay is to fight against the ad-blocker user.
This is also not the first time Google adds feature that will work better with chrome.
undeadfoodsnob@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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.
penquin@lemm.ee 5 months ago
That’s the fucking spirit. Here, I’m joining you. Fuck Google.
doink@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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.
illi@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Ever since I discovered Piped and LibreTube, I never looked back.And I used premium for years.
Nelots@lemm.ee 5 months ago
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.
DuskyRo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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…
Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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.
kubica@kbin.social 5 months ago
It's possibly dedicated to messing around for people testing firefox after the news.
zzzz@lemmy.world 5 months ago
*effect
But, yes, me too.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 months ago
To be clear, is this delay skipped for subscribers?
ultratiem@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
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.