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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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[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've been caught before, but there's no regulation for this in some regions

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Big shame that this wouldn't be illegal. But hopefully soon. Very anticompetitive behavior.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is, just not everywhere. Like the USA

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, the "everywhere" was implied, thank you 😊