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(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] (www.youtube.com)
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[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They're doing it on purpose.
Metal Outlaws video shows a bit of the code where it shows that it runs a 5s sleep function, and this function is only triggered if the browser has a Firefox user-agent.