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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.

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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.

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  • fenrasulfr@lemmy.world
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    Let’s hope Europe stars investigating Google as a gatekeeper. That seemed to work miracles on Apple.

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    The fuck?? Isn’t this anti competitive behaviour?

    • agent_flounder@lemmy.world
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      Yes. The US DOJ has a website for reporting antitrust concerns

  • scholar@lemmy.world
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    It’s bizarre how blatent this is. Google has so much power over web standards that Mozilla have to work really hard to make firefox work, but YouTube don’t bother being subtle or clever and just write ‘if Firefox, get stuffed’ in plain text for everyone to see.

    • aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world
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      Google has been doing this kind of thing for a while. If you try to use Google Meet in Firefox, you can’t use things like background blurring. Spoofing Chrome works in that situation as well.

      • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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        And the stupid thing is that all I use Chrome for is Meets… And that’s it. Do they really think they win me over?

  • Rinox@feddit.it
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    BTW, this:

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      This is some ultimate scumbaggery.

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

        • LufyCZ@lemmy.world
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          It honestly probably is

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

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