Glad I dropped chrome for Firefox at the beginning of 2022. It took some time to get used to it but eventually it's now my main browser. Tired of Google being such a piece of shit. Hopefully 2024 will be the year of Linux on mobile.
YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox
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Re: YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox
#192Re: YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox
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I think you’re missing the point. How can I browse Youtube in mpv?
Use Invidious, Piped or any other frontend that doesn't track and manipulate you.
Adding https://youtube-lite.js.org/#/ to the list.
Re: YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox
#194I use Firefox on macOS Ventura, and here the video pages load instantly.
I do have YouTube Premium (paid for in India to reduce the cost), but also in an incognito window where I'm not logged in, the video pages load immediately.
Maybe it's because I use the extensions uBlock Origin and/or Disable Autoplay For YouTube?
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That is not correct. The surrounding code gives some more context: h=document.createElement("video");l=new Blob([new Uint8Array([/* snip */])],{type:"video/webm"}); h.src=lc(Mia(l));h.ontimeupdate=function(){c();a.resolve(0)}; e.appendChild(h);h.classList.add("html5-main-video");setTimeout(function(){e.classList.add("ad-interrupting")},200); setTimeout(function(){c();a.resolve(1)},5E3); return m.return(a.promise)})}…
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This gives us some background, but it's still slowing down firefox with no relation to the video content.
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I'm not even mad about Google making my artificially wait 5s for using firefox. I'm mad that such a big company with suposelly decent engineers, are making me wait 5s with literally a sleep, how is even possible to do such thing in such a rudimentary way? I would be like damn that was smart, this feels like, seriously this is the level?
Speaking as someone who only very occasionally does browser related programming, what is the supposed sin committed here by implementing it this way?
Yep, curious to know the same thing myself.
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Trying to be charitable here: could this be a debug/test artefact that inadvertantly got into production?
Unlikely. Google has been breaking non-Chromium (or sometimes even just non-Google Chrome) browsers for years on YouTube and their other websites. It was especially egregious when MSFT was trying their own EdgeHTML/Trident-based Edge. Issues would go away by faking user-agent.
> It was especially egregious when MSFT was trying their own EdgeHTML/Trident-based Edge. Issues would go away by faking user-agent.
Why is there more than one user-agent? Does somebody still expect to receive different content based on the user-agent, and furthermore expect that the difference will be beneficial to them?
What was Microsoft trying to achieve by sending a non-Chrome user-agent?
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> Never mind that every other streaming app vendor figured this out Did they? Both Prime Video and Disney+ have very very narrow subtitle and audio language choices. > If you call their support, they'll gaslight you and mumble something about "copyright", which is patent nonsense. Copyright doesn't restrict Netflix from showing more translations for their own content that they made themselves. They own the copyright…
Apple TV shows something like 50 languages. More than I can be bothered to count, certainly. Are you saying it's some sort of challenge beyond the abilities of a Senior Technical Lead with total comp in the seven digits to figure out how to make a list of items more than 4 or 5 entries long? Too many megabytes of JSON to shove down the wire for more? > Maybe they mean the subtitles' copyright? They definitely do not.…
> Sit down and think about how absurd it is for the bastion of wokeness that is Netflix to discriminate this profoundly against inter-racial love
I'm on the same boat and I hear you. And since we are on this subject, do you know what else grinds my gears? The whole idea of cultural appropriation. So if your ancestry is X then you can't do/wear/celebrate Y.
So when you ask these people something like: Is it okay for my half-X, half-Y children to do this? they start feeling confused. But if you go: What about my grandchildren, who are 1/4 X and 1/4 Y and 1/2 Z?. Some of them begin to realize how racist and simplistic they are being.
Learn and enjoy other people's cultures, for goodness' sake. It's called being human.
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It's weird but I saw the anti-blocker modal a week or two but them it stopped appearing and never saw it since shrug
Might be because of the EU ruling, if you're in the EU.
I'm in the US, and had the same experience.
I got the you can't use an adblocker message, but was able to close and/or reload the page to watch videos without ads. After a week or so it stopped popping up.
US, Firefox, uBlockOrgin.
Re: YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox
#200I'm getting such a pause also in Chrome since a few days, I was assuming that it's fallout from the adblocking wars though (I use uBlock Origin and don't get the nag screen anymore since around the time that pause appeared)
Yup, same here — I see the same delay in Chrome now and then.
I guessed it was due to the cat-and-mouse adblocking prevention between YouTube and adblockers (I'm also using uBlock Origin).