YouTube artificially slows down video load times when using Firefox

Re:YouTube artificially slows down video load times when usi... by JohnFen on Monday November 20, 2023 @06:43PM (#38356659)

This kind of BS is why I don't ever click on links directly. I copy/paste them instead, so I can examine and trim them. Often, the actual link is through some sort of redirection service and I need to copy/paste the text the browser shows for the link rather than the actual link.

There's so much trickery and nonsense around this stuff that no link is safe to just click on.

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Re:YouTube artificially slows down video load times when usi... by l8rlump on Monday November 20, 2023 @10:30PM (#38358733)

Check out the Privacy Badger extension. I believe it removes the tracking stuff from (some) links.

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Re:YouTube artificially slows down video load times when usi... by vanderZwan on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @04:25AM (#38361373)

There are also dedicated link cleaning extensions (I use Neat Url).

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Re:YouTube artificially slows down video load times when usi... by flexagoon on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @01:11AM (#38375333)

You actually don't need to use any dedicated extensions for that, as this functionality is built into uBO, you just need to find a filter list (just search for "ublock origin clearurl list" or whatever)

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Re:YouTube artificially slows down video load times when usi... by vanderZwan on Friday November 24, 2023 @12:42PM (#38406305)

Does it work on links copied from the page for chats?

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Re:YouTube artificially slows down video load times when usi... by JohnFen on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @10:39AM (#38365087)

I use privacy badger, but it doesn't cover everything so I end up having to manually check all links anyway.

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