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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)
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[โ€“] spamspeicher@feddit.de 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

[โ€“] thomcat@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

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