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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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[-] notfromhere@lemmy.one 67 points 9 months ago

It would be nice if FTC or someone would sue them for anticompetitive behavior.

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 33 points 9 months ago

And, you know, broke them up into many smaller companies.

[-] stellargmite@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I wonder to what extent this will help, in the case of YouTube? Its so dominant of that market. Is it purely fiscal or also technical?

[-] Quik@infosec.pub 12 points 9 months ago

It probably would help, as Google couldn’t connect their advertising services that easily with YouTube, and both parties would have to be more independent.

[-] InevitableWaffles@midwest.social 6 points 9 months ago

Youtube is a money pit. If it had to split from Google, they will need to up monitization pronto or shut down. While I do want Google broken like Bane cracking Batman, there will be casualities. Too many parts of our internet infrastructure exist via subsidization and we use them like utilities. It is going to be messy out there if the FTC succeeds.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If your company need to do illegal shit to exist, your company needs to stop existing.

[-] InevitableWaffles@midwest.social 5 points 9 months ago

Agreed. I feel the same way about youtube going as Reddit did. For some of us, it is just a fun thing. Some people need it because it is their best access to knowledge. I worry for those who need it.

[-] e0qdk@kbin.social 16 points 9 months ago

There are two US antitrust cases against Google right now:

U.S. and Plaintiff States v. Google LLC (2020) (in trial; list of many documents)
U.S. and Plaintiff States v. Google LLC (2023) (Complaint PDF)

The first is related to things like paying to be the default search engine on iPhone, Firefox, etc. The second is related to ad tech. Neither really directly addresses the issues that average people have with Google's behavior though, so keep filing complaints!

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Google gets sued for this shit all the time, but do you think you're going to hear about this on Google or Youtube?

Case in point, very few people know that they got sued for protecting multiple pedophiles as they were grooming kids on their platform.

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world -4 points 9 months ago

Small government has entered the chat

[-] notfromhere@lemmy.one 4 points 9 months ago

I’m not sure I follow.

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