(3 Scenarios: 1. bug, 2. on purpose not likely during anti trust case, 3.screwing with adblockers so slow)Is Youtube making firefox load slow on purpose? [17:01 | Louis Rossmann]

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• kismattic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Appreciate the title summary as opposed to standard click-bait, doing good work!

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• Rustmilian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re doing it on purpose.
  Metal Outlaws video shows a bit of the code.

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• csolisr@communities.azkware.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Google’s Polymer library working better on the Chromium engine has been known for years, and Mozilla has been doing its best to keep up with Google’s wrenches in the engine, this seven-year-old bug being one of many examples: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1367205

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  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He talks about an artificial 5 second timeout function: Polymer script that has 5E3 (5000ms) in script

    cybernews.com/…/firefox-users-frustrated-over-all…

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• Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Rossman is right about it the case about targeting only adblock users (whether this 5 second delaying thing is this type of action or not)

  Google can try all they want to throttle or restrict ad-free experiences as much as we’re free to try to get around them, and using YouTube without ad or tracker is not compensating them so they don’t owe us anything. Anti-competitive practices, invasive tracking and things like that we can target Google for doing.

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• Heresy_generator@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  on purpose not likely during anti trust case

  Neither I nor Louis Rossmann are lawyers but this is not a strong point, the government just wrapped up their arguments in that case and they are way past the point where they could introduce new evidence. This is the prefect time to start rolling out more monopolistic bullshit.

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