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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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ares35@kbin.social
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this isn’t much different than when microsoft added code specifically to break windows 3.1 when run under dr-dos instead of their own ms-dos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code

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Lmaydev@programming.dev
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And it cost them 280 million in the 90s ouch

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tetris11@lemmy.ml
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Something tells me they survived.

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