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I have been getting this same slow-down for a month or two, but using Brave - which is the same user-agent as Chrome. I would imagine changing the user-agent a

I have been getting this same slow-down for a month or two, but using Brave - which is the same user-agent as Chrome. I would imagine changing the user-agent at all will (temporarily) fix it, rather than to a Chrome user-agent specifically. Probably targets ad blocking users rather than non-Chrome users.

dwighttk 3y ago
Huh, I nearly exclusively use Brave for YouTube because it does a good job blocking ads and I haven’t noticed any slowdown. I did see the ad nag once when I accidentally went to YouTube in safari