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Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.(old.reddit.com)

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Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
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Invidious and Piped fix this issue. You can use LibRedirect to automatically redirect all YouTube links to Invidious or Piped.

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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
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Makes sense and improves privacy but they’re not going to win on speed, not even on Firefox, unless you host a private instance or use a nearby-hosted one.

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Steve@lemmy.today
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This doesn’t have any impact on video load times on Piped, does it?

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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
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Why would it? I don’t think your browser makes any direct connection to youtube.com when using Piped, all goes through a proxy server of your choice (hence the name).

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