db0 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-square51fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10cross-posted to: mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
arrow-up13arrow-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 to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 months agomessage-square51fedilinkcross-posted to: mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
minus-square@aseriesoftubes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•8 months agoGoogle has been doing this kind of thing for a while. If you try to use Google Meet in Firefox, you can’t use things like background blurring. Spoofing Chrome works in that situation as well.
minus-squareLemminarylinkfedilinkEnglish1•8 months agoAnd the stupid thing is that all I use Chrome for is Meets… And that’s it. Do they really think they win me over?
minus-square@chiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•8 months agoNot you or me. But most people, yeah.
minus-squareHoptrainlinkfedilinkEnglish1•8 months agoThat is, as always, the problem: it works for them. The average Joe isn’t going to implement a new filter into ublock…
Google has been doing this kind of thing for a while. If you try to use Google Meet in Firefox, you can’t use things like background blurring. Spoofing Chrome works in that situation as well.
And the stupid thing is that all I use Chrome for is Meets… And that’s it. Do they really think they win me over?
Not you or me. But most people, yeah.
That is, as always, the problem: it works for them. The average Joe isn’t going to implement a new filter into ublock…