Alright so, Youtube rant incoming:
I'm a Firefox user. You may have heard by now how google was caught purposely sabotaging video load times with an artificial delay if they detect that you're using Firefox. Well lately, I've been having other issues. I couldn't rule out that it was my shitty ISP not playing well with Youtube, which is certainly true, but the issues just kept coming. I would have videos skip ahead 10 seconds randomly all throughout. Backing up the video would do one of two things. It would either skip that same segment again, or endlessly buffer until I refresh. Sometimes videos wouldn't load at all, but that one could be either Youtube or my ISP, it's hard to tell sometimes. The other big issue I was having was when I watched a short, it would CONSISTENTLY get a few seconds in, and then the video would freeze, while the sound kept going. I'd have to refresh to get the video to play properly.
So, the other day, the skipping issue was getting WAY worse than it has ever been. Frustrated, I was looking for solutions. I kept skipping over the ones that kept mentioning the artificial delay issue because.. pff.. there's no way that's related, right? Out of options, I installed User-Agent Switcher and Manager on firefox, and set it to spoof a Chrome Browser. For the past couple of days, I've been viewing Youtube with this setting.
The difference is night and day -.-
The skipping issue is almost gone. I had one video this morning skip a second or two, and backing it up just once played the entire segment it had skipped over previously. Otherwise, everything's been running smoothly. And that freezing issue on shorts? GONE! It's not happening any more! Youtube is running more smoothly on my machine now than it ever has. NOTHING CHANGED except the firefox browser I've been using this whole time is now announcing itself to Youtube as "Yep, I'm totally a Chrome browser. 100% not Firefox."
If it was just the artificial delay, it would have been annoying, but I could have dealt with that since my ISP sucks anyway, but the other issues were causing me to have to use third party downloaders to watch a video in its entirety until now. So fuck you, Google. Stop trying to bully me into using that shit browser of yours because now I'm even more determined to cling to ANYTHING ELSE.
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1 month, 2 weeks ago
24 Mar 2024 17:52 CET
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