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Google allegedly crippling Firefox’s YouTube performance — company’s response to five-second video delay for non-Chrome users misses the point

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Google allegedly crippling Firefox's YouTube performance — company's response to five-second video delay for non-Chrome users misses the point

Image credit: Google, Mozilla. Article by Mark Tyson. Tom’s Hardware – November 21, 2023.

On Monday, a Redditor demonstrated that a recently observed five-second video loading delay, seen when using YouTube in Firefox, could be eliminated by changing the user agent to Chrome. Today, YouTube responded with a statement received by Android Authority conflating non-Chrome video loading delay issues with the use of ad blockers. […]