db0 to [email protected]English • 3 years agoYoutube 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-square431fedilinkarrow-up12.52Karrow-down150cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up12.47Karrow-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 to [email protected]English • 3 years agomessage-square431fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish30•3 years agoThe 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-squareNatanaellinkfedilinkEnglish17•3 years agoThey could literally have used some variance in implementation, server side bandwidth limitations, etc, but THIS is just blatantly obvious
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•3 years agoExactly what I was thinking. Let’s not say it too loud for the sake of our mole(s)
minus-squareCosmic ClericlinkfedilinkEnglish4•3 years ago The world runs on the shoulders of disgruntled employees. That’s one hell of a phrase that should keep any CEO awake at night.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-3•3 years agoI believe that Google is just trolling people real hard. There are much better ways to disable any adblocks, but they are not even trying.
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
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Exactly what I was thinking. Let’s not say it too loud for the sake of our mole(s)
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That’s one hell of a phrase that should keep any CEO awake at night.
I believe that Google is just trolling people real hard. There are much better ways to disable any adblocks, but they are not even trying.