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Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Google lived long enough to become the villain.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Old news, they've been the villain for much longer than you think

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Randomocity 3 points 2 years ago

~~Don't~~ be evil

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

When they were allowed to buy YouTube because their Google Video couldn't compete was the turning point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Remember when they forced everyone with a Google service account (Youtube, gmail, etc.) to automatically have an account on their attempted social media site? What was it called, circles or something? I think they saw it was failing and tied everyone with a Google account to the social site in an attempt to make it look like the social site actually had members. The problem was that, still, nobody used it and what use it it to have millions on inactive users on a social media platform.?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Google plus. I think it's groups were called circles

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago