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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)

submitted 1 year ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ARk@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Likely just a network-related issue

[–] thomcat@midwest.social -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Using a VPN on a shitty network won't magically make your network connection better.

[–] spamspeicher@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It is possible. Maybe the peering from his ISP to YouTube is shit/ overloaded. That was an issue for Deutsche Telekom for a few years because Telekom didn't want to pay for better peering. With a VPN it is possible to get good peering to your ISP and YouTube and in return faster load speeds.

[–] thomcat@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Well crap, I didn't consider that, thanks!

[–] ghterve@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

No but it can definitely work around issues like a congested link between isp and Google, resolving network-related YouTube performance issues.

[–] ARk@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

No, but it does affect what route your traffic goes through.