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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)
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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 54 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Not noticing this change from the EU... Guess they're too afraid of pulling that shit here?

[–] lud@lemm.ee 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Google LOVES A/B testing so it might be just that. I haven't noticed anything either.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

True, could just be lucky. I still haven't noticed any ad blocking changes either, but then again I'm using Firefox with μBlock Origin...

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They've been caught before, but there's no regulation for this in some regions

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Big shame that this wouldn't be illegal. But hopefully soon. Very anticompetitive behavior.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It is, just not everywhere. Like the USA

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the "everywhere" was implied, thank you 😊

[–] Mrs_deWinter@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm in the EU, using Vivaldi, and have the delay since yesterday. It's not on every video though. Seems like UBlock and YouTube are fighting each other every time I open a new link.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

That's interesting. Could be uBlock doing its thing then, for which I'm quite thankful