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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)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This is some ultimate scumbaggery.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This should be illegal, Firefox being their competition (tangentially)

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It honestly probably is

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago

EU might hit them for it. I have no faith that the US government is going to do anything.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The thing that gets me is they think no one will ever find this stuff. There are hundreds of thousands of people (maybe more) who are actively looking ways to block ads and get around this behavior. There's no way it'll ever go unnoticed.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They could literally have used some variance in implementation, server side bandwidth limitations, etc, but THIS is just blatantly obvious

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I wonder if it's a case of malicious compliance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Exactly what I was thinking. Let's not say it too loud for the sake of our mole(s)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I hope so. I'd like to think we have a few people on the inside secretly fighting for the average consumer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The world runs on the shoulders of disgruntled employees. This smells like a deliberate act backed up with a paper trail to protect the guy in charge of implementing it from taking the blame. But, I realise that also may be my imagination... It's a compelling tale regardless.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

The world runs on the shoulders of disgruntled employees.

That's one hell of a phrase that should keep any CEO awake at night.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago

I believe that Google is just trolling people real hard. There are much better ways to disable any adblocks, but they are not even trying.