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Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. The slow down is 5 secs according to the video.
Update 1: Safari faces the same treatment
Update 2: Google confirms 5 sec delays for ad-block user
I’m pretty sure this is going to directly violate Internet neutrality laws when the FCC votes them back into effect.
And the EU laws.
And my axe.
Well played.
Cries in UK.
Net neutrality is about ISPs though.
Google isn’t an ISP when it comes to youtube. Yes, they are an ISP in the context of Google fiber but this is completely different. It would be a violation of net neutrality if they slowed certain sites to fiber users.
Didn’t similar shit get Microsoft hit with antitrust lawsuits?
Maybe… Hope someone sues YT :)
Yes… many years later, and while those lawsuits were slowly being resolved, Microsoft was busy laying the groundwork for other bullshit that was unethical but not technically illegal.
If you actually expect a solution in a reasonable amount of time, either invent time travel or spoof Chrome.
Ive been noticing this recently too also buffering occasionally on random videos from time to time when im having 0 connectivity issues. This isint going to make the average person think firefox is bad but rather that youtube is garbage
I would have thought the exact same thing. I like having videos play in the background so I wouldn’t have looked into it anyway.
This should not be legal.
It’s probably not, and now?
I was wondering what that was for a few days. I thought it was just uBlock Origin doing its work.
Fuck Google
Use Invidious or Piped to bypass the ads, tracking as well as the slow down. You can combine it with LibRedirect to automatically redirect all YouTube links to Invidious or Piped. Works like a dream. Another option is FreeTube, it’s a desktop client for YouTube that can also use the Invidious API.
Yeah, user agent switcher set to chrome, made vids load immediately. Shitty move google.
Just use Invidious with LibRedirect. If everyone spoofs their user-agent to Firefox, Google will say ‘No one uses Firefox’
Is this only in certain areas? YouTube is still working fine for me on FireFox.
I think I have some slowdowns FF with unlock Origin in Germany so maybe
I’m in America and I haven’t noticed any YT slowdowns.
I use https://piped.video/trending as an alternative to YouTube.
US DOJ has an anti-trust complaint page… Easy to find via search…
Begun, the Chrome spoof wars have.
Just use Invidious with LibRedirect. If everyone spoofs their user-agent to Firefox, Google will say ‘No one uses Firefox’
If everyone spoofs the Chrome user agent, they’re going to think that fewer and fewer people are using Firefox on YouTube, which is not ideal :(
I had this the past ~3 days, but now it’s gone as of yesterday evening.
I called it. However I didn’t expect them to do it that early.
google’s been messing with firefox on yt for years.
I’ve noticed this happening on Firefox, but not with LibreWolf for some reason
Does Librewolf present itself differently or use a different user agent altogether? I could see Librewolf presenting itself as Chromium as a privacy measure and people are saying changing the user agent fixes the issue.
EDIT: I’ve seen this happen on Safari for macOS. Someone at Apple is certainly snitching to their higher-ups, lol.
Fuck Google, Fuck Youtube, Fuck Alphabet, Honestly just fuck everyone who does this shit