YouTube is reportedly slowing down videos for Firefox users::Users are reporting that YouTube has begun adding a five second delay when loading a video on non-Chrome browsers like Firefox. Read on!
That’s an antitrust lawsuit waiting to happen
Time to break Google up so they can buy all the companies the government forced them to sale!
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Here’s a reason why net neutrality laws are good
not defending the behavior, but is this even an example of net neutrality? it’s not like ISPs are putting a slow lane for specific browsers in this case. it seems more like a shitty dark pattern type thing (which should have consumer protections as well)
fun fact, i had been noticing this for over a week or two already, today, after the first posts about this were gaining traction it stopped. They are probably trying to erase their tracks and make it seem like something that only happened to a few people for an unrelated reason.
Or they do A\B testing and you fell from your initial group. Due to the nature of this lag, it’s hard to confirm without internal leaks or investigation. At least, it got reported.
I also noticed it. Put it down to my sometimes flakey wifi. But this makes more sense. What a bunch of babies.
So that’s why YouTube seemed to act weird. I thought my wi-fi was dying
Wow yeah. The delays have stopped on my end as well today.
i felt like this has been a thing since like 10 years ago. with 100 mbps connection yt would always struggle to buffer in ff
If YouTube really wanted to piss people off, all they would have to do is play the audio out of sync with the video. ;) I know, I know, “don’t give them ideas!”
Oh I’m sure with the lugnuts running the place they’ve thought of that already and have it on the backburner. They just haven’t figured out a way to pin it on a “glitch” yet.
This is not Firefox specific. It’s another anti ad blocker technique they’re trying.
Time to spoof the user agent?
Nah, just be patient and wait the 5s. They are trying to create an artificial problem to try to make users switch to their garbage Chrome browser. When they see that Firefox users are smarter and don’t give a shit about their stupid tactics, or even better, use different apps like FreeTube to see the videos, they will stop. Either that or destroy the platform.
I wait the 5 secs, don’t bother me at all. It’s not like they are an ad… :D
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I wouldn’t put it past them, but I think it needs more evidence.
Try spoofing your user agent and see if it improves.
Is anyone even able to reproduce the issue? It cannot be improved if you can’t reproduce it in the first place.
F that
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Why does this sub allow duplicate posts?
Petty Alphabet…petty. Do you not have a killer AI coming? What does YouTube even matter in the face of what is coming. Do you really have competitive AI?
The video in the article does not clear caches before retrying and seeing a faster load. Amateur hour.
They actually found a 5-second sleep embedded in the JavaScript, so it’s not the cache.
They found something which waits for five seconds and then does something. At least part of the thing in question was removing some stuff from the DOM - I couldn’t understand anything else from the minified JS. That is not a smoking gun.
Depends, in the original Reddit thread, someone already pointed out that this 5s delay is to wait for some ad thing and then execute code if it doesn’t work within this timeframe. So… depending on what gets cached, blocked, loaded,… it might behave differently on a reload depending on cached data
I’ve noticed that when I open a video in a new tab instead of just left-clicking it. Slightly annoying but better than ads and using chrome.
