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mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours ago

Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers

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Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers

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mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours ago
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Google may block you from watching YouTube videos if you have an ad blocker installed on your Windows PC or mobile device.
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    12 hours ago

    I also think they slowed it down for firefox users.

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      If you get a user agent switcher and change your user agent for youtube to chrome then that slowing down goes away.

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        Wait I can do it just for YouTube? Never occurred to me. I’ll have to look into this

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