db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months 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-square479fedilinkarrow-up12.69Karrow-down153cross-posted to: mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
arrow-up12.64Karrow-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 · 8 months agomessage-square479fedilinkcross-posted to: mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
minus-squareumbraroze@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up10·8 months agoIf Chrome is known for one thing, it’s absurd User-Agent strings. Why not make it even more absurd??? Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 (Ahahaha; Fuck you Google; This is actually) Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0
If Chrome is known for one thing, it’s absurd User-Agent strings. Why not make it even more absurd???
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 (Ahahaha; Fuck you Google; This is actually) Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0