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Surely this is against anti-trust laws.

Imagine if Microsoft slowed down everything that wasn’t on their services, it’s insane.

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User-Agent switcher.

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While this is abhorrent, I have to say in general Firefox is just painfully slow on mobile compared to other browsers. Don’t know what it’s doing but I stopped using it because it’s noticeably slow.

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90% of the time I go to search something in Firefox it just straight up refuses to load anything and I have to close the tab and start another…

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This used to happen to me all the time but I think it randomly stopped.

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Eh? I use it on my phone all the time, and it works just fine.

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Yeah I’ve gone and deleted the cache and data then did a reinstall. Seems better now

Edit: nope still shit

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Which phone do you use?

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Use Invidious or Piped in combination with LibRedirect in order to automatically redirect all YouTube links to Invidious or Piped.

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The worst part is that a Youtube Premium Subscription costs more than Netflix or other streaming providers here in Australia… And you’re basically paying for ad removal of a metric ton of low quality content (and their music service, which isn’t as good as others I found)

That being said, this might not be true (I’ve seen lots of BS online regarding browsers in the past)

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when the email came through for the price hike, I told my wife we should drop the family plan and use more advanced adblocking and invidous etc - apparently my demo didn’t pass the wife and children test… so guess who’s continuing to pay for YT Premium?

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Can you ditch the wife and kids?

J/K

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That’s actually my suggestion. Clearly the wife is nuts

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And it doesn’t remove promotions by the content creators, so you’re still seeing lots of ads. Still, since my kids spend so much time on YouTube I think it’s worth reducing the amount of brain washing, but I’m definitely not happy about the pricing. It’s ridiculous when you compare it to other streaming services who also have to produce or license their content.

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How about seeing YouTube adverts to then watch a video that’s entirely an advertisement for the company that’s sponsoring the YouTuber.

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