I smell a spicy lawsuit

They do the same shit for Google search results. Search weather or stock tickers with a Chrome user agent* and you get a rich, interactive chart of the weather forecast or stock history. Search with another mobile user agent and you get a static snapshot of the weather or stock price at an instant in time.

There's even an extension for Firefox for Android which changes the user agent for Google searches to Chrome, to get the rich content.

* just a user agent, not an actual browser, which proves that it isn't about browser capability, but rather abusing their monopolistic market position in search to further their web browser's market share. Sound familiar, Microsoft from the 90's?

This cant be legal

Stop using youtube. It is made of poop.

Let's hope Europe stars investigating Google as a gatekeeper. That seemed to work miracles on Apple.

So thats why it was buffering 24/7

So they're doing the same thing as that time they killed Edge and stretched its skin over chromium?

Lately (few months) YouTube will not load whatsoever on my android phone nor tablet very often, activating a VPN fixes it instantly. Using basic YouTube app

Holy fuck I hope they get the pants sued off of them

So, how to spoof chrome?

"Ok, so blocking adblock hasn't worked" "Let's just slow them down" "That's a great idea, no-one will ever notice"

• Winning lines from the competitive glue sniffing awards

Reminds me of the "Netscape Navigator has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" errors that Windows 98 used to throw.

It would only throw one, and you could just move it out of the way and keep using Netscape.

Bruh. I thought that was uBlock bypassing the ad or something.

Time to start copying those videos, irrespective of copyright, onto PeerTube instances.

Not that I think Google is a great company, but why is this on its own proof of anything based on this single persons video evidence? In my single person test I don't see that 5 second delay when using Firefox and browsing around Youtube. Seems far more likely to be an issue with this persons browser setup than something Google did to me.

What’s why it sucked ass this weekend?!? Fuckers.

Huh, I noticed YouTube videos taking a little extra longer to load.

I noticed logging out of your YouTube account helps.

I just opened a private window in Firefox.

Not happening for me currently, but that definitely sounds like something Google would do. Good thing Firefox lets you easily change your user agent.

Seems that FF is not the target:

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/17zq1jj/youtube_is_reportedly_slowing_down_videos_for/ka0utpq/

Why would they spend resources to enrage 3% (at most) of their users?

It's long past time to flesh out our antitrust laws to deal with these greedy tech giants.