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 1 year 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 1 year ago
iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 1 year ago
And the EU laws.
Legolution@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Cries in UK.
KnowledgeableNip@leminal.space 1 year ago
Didn’t similar shit get Microsoft hit with antitrust lawsuits?
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 1 year ago
Maybe… Hope someone sues YT :)
magnetosphere@kbin.social 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
This should not be legal.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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 1 year ago
Yeah, user agent switcher set to chrome, made vids load immediately. Shitty move google.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Just use Invidious with LibRedirect. If everyone spoofs their user-agent to Firefox, Google will say ‘No one uses Firefox’
pepsison52895@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Is this only in certain areas? YouTube is still working fine for me on FireFox.
Mixel@feddit.de [bot] 1 year ago
I think I have some slowdowns FF with unlock Origin in Germany so maybe
floral_toxicity@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m in America and I haven’t noticed any YT slowdowns.
dnnybrks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I use piped.video/trending as an alternative to YouTube.
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 1 year ago
US DOJ has an anti-trust complaint page… Easy to find via search…
dan1101@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Begun, the Chrome spoof wars have.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Just use Invidious with LibRedirect. If everyone spoofs their user-agent to Firefox, Google will say ‘No one uses Firefox’
dan@upvote.au 1 year 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 1 year ago
I called it. However I didn’t expect them to do it that early.
ares35@kbin.social 1 year ago
google's been messing with firefox on yt for years.
Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 1 year ago
Fuck Google, Fuck Youtube, Fuck Alphabet, Honestly just fuck everyone who does this shit
violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I’ve noticed this happening on Firefox, but not with LibreWolf for some reason
Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 year 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 1 year ago
I had this the past ~3 days, but now it’s gone as of yesterday evening.
Octopus1348@thelemmy.club 1 year 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 1 year ago
What if I would change the useragent?
Orbituary@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He says that in the comment body.
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ublock origin blocks all ads and their stupid pop-up.
Saigonauticon@voltage.vn 1 year 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 1 year ago
CloudTube is the way!
tun@lemm.ee 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
That’s the fucking spirit. Here, I’m joining you. Fuck Google.
doink@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Ever since I discovered Piped and LibreTube, I never looked back.And I used premium for years.
Nelots@lemm.ee 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
It's possibly dedicated to messing around for people testing firefox after the news.
zzzz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
*effect
But, yes, me too.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 year ago
To be clear, is this delay skipped for subscribers?
ultratiem@lemmy.ca 1 year 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.