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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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[-] scholar@lemmy.world 380 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] ares35@kbin.social 135 points 7 months ago

this isn't much different than when microsoft added code specifically to break windows 3.1 when run under dr-dos instead of their own ms-dos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code

[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 74 points 7 months ago

And it cost them 280 million in the 90s ouch

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 28 points 7 months ago

Something tells me they survived.

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