db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 年前Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.old.reddit.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down11
arrow-up129arrow-down1external-linkYoutube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.old.reddit.comdb0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 年前message-square36fedilink
minus-squareThermal_shocked@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 年前The thing that gets me is they think no one will ever find this stuff. There are hundreds of thousands of people (maybe more) who are actively looking ways to block ads and get around this behavior. There’s no way it’ll ever go unnoticed.
minus-squareNatanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 年前They could literally have used some variance in implementation, server side bandwidth limitations, etc, but THIS is just blatantly obvious
minus-squarefossilesque@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 年前I wonder if it’s a case of malicious compliance.
The thing that gets me is they think no one will ever find this stuff. There are hundreds of thousands of people (maybe more) who are actively looking ways to block ads and get around this behavior. There’s no way it’ll ever go unnoticed.
They could literally have used some variance in implementation, server side bandwidth limitations, etc, but THIS is just blatantly obvious
I wonder if it’s a case of malicious compliance.