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Re:YouTube artificially slows down video load times when usi... by gear54rus on Monday November 20, 2023 @06:49AM (#38346694)
Seconded. This title is therefore sensationalist and has to be edited.
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Re:YouTube artificially slows down video load times when usi... by makeitdouble on Monday November 20, 2023 @07:17AM (#38346920)
This gives us some background, but it's still slowing down firefox with no relation to the video content.
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Re:YouTube artificially slows down video load times when usi... by insanitybit on Monday November 20, 2023 @07:46AM (#38347191)
It's radically different.
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Re:YouTube artificially slows down video load times when usi... by Ygg2 on Monday November 20, 2023 @07:03AM (#38346805)
How come switching to User Agent to Chrome fixed it for that Reddit OP? Does it omit this if UA is changed?
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Re:YouTube artificially slows down video load times when usi... by gear54rus on Monday November 20, 2023 @07:09AM (#38346857)
When they first introduced anti-adblock crap, you could evade the banner by switching UAs. I'd say it's fair to assume that switching UAs triggers some other code path and this function never gets called.
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