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"In this video I discuss how YouTube is artificially slowing down videos in the Firefox browser artificially to probably get people to use Chromium browsers that Google has more control over."

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I honestly thought I was just having bad luck with Firefox. Whenever it occurs, I take the link and throw it into freetube.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Here’s the article. He showed in the video, https://www.ghacks.net/2023/11/20/youtube-video-loading-delayed-fix-inside/. I used the uBlock Origin Filter and it works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The video is bunk, the original "analysis" was wrong, they didn't look up what the function actually does, the function is showing up in other browsers. It's pretty clear this is an A/B test rolling out that's fetching something behind the scenes that's broken for a bunch of people.

Jumped to a conclusion without even understanding the subject at hand.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Reddit is also slowing down Firefox. This shit needs to stop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Youtube makes the video stutery too sometimes on my firefox

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think they are trying another random testing because this happens to me from time to time on brave browser too.

[–] hiyidef646 -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Advertising your youtube channel should be a bannable offense

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think it's op's vid. That's the videos caption.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Plus when the video is this closely related to the topic of the community, I feel like even advertising your own video is okay.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not if you have no idea what you are talking about and are blatantly lying for clicks.

This generic 5s timeout function shows up in other browsers too, not just FF.

[–] hiyidef646 -2 points 1 year ago

Doesn't matter