db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years agoYoutube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.old.reddit.comexternal-linkmessage-square104linkfedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down15
arrow-up168arrow-down1external-linkYoutube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.old.reddit.comdb0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square104linkfedilink
minus-squareaseriesoftubes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 years agoGoogle has been doing this kind of thing for a while. If you try to use Google Meet in Firefox, you can’t use things like background blurring. Spoofing Chrome works in that situation as well.
minus-squareLemminary@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 years agoAnd the stupid thing is that all I use Chrome for is Meets… And that’s it. Do they really think they win me over?
minus-squarechiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agoNot you or me. But most people, yeah.
minus-squareHoptrain@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 years agoThat is, as always, the problem: it works for them. The average Joe isn’t going to implement a new filter into ublock…
minus-squareAlexWIWA@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agoIt works for me now. Only took them 8 years
Google has been doing this kind of thing for a while. If you try to use Google Meet in Firefox, you can’t use things like background blurring. Spoofing Chrome works in that situation as well.
And the stupid thing is that all I use Chrome for is Meets… And that’s it. Do they really think they win me over?
Not you or me. But most people, yeah.
That is, as always, the problem: it works for them. The average Joe isn’t going to implement a new filter into ublock…
It works for me now. Only took them 8 years