“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.”

  • UnixWeeb@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    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.

  • corey389
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    1 year ago

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

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    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.

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    1 year ago

    Youtube makes the video stutery too sometimes on my firefox

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    1 year ago

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