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by jjbinx007 271 days ago
YouTube is pretty shocking in Firefox, even worse with an ad blocker.
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The experience suddenly gets mysteriously better if you switch your user agent to Chrome's, though.
That's not my experience at all. Switching off AV1 encoded videos has made a huge difference, though.
Sounds like an unnecessary polyfill.
I like imagine the stuttering and jagged reflows are the result of uBlock origin violently battling the page and destroying all the ads.