Raccoonn to Firefox@lemmy.ml • 1 year agoGoogle slows down Firefox users when watching YouTube....fosspost.orgexternal-linkmessage-square103fedilinkarrow-up1804arrow-down127
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minus-square@echo64@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink-8•1 year agoNah this doesn’t make sense. You, and everyone else, will sit through five seconds of loading vs watching an ad. You know this, Google know this. Occams razor is at play here. If they want to to be conspiratorial, they have better and smarter ways to do it.
minus-square@iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eelinkfedilink2•1 year agoAs someone else posted, it’s very much intentional: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/whenever_i_open_a_youtube_video_in_a_new_tab_its/k9w3ei4/
Nah this doesn’t make sense. You, and everyone else, will sit through five seconds of loading vs watching an ad. You know this, Google know this.
Occams razor is at play here. If they want to to be conspiratorial, they have better and smarter ways to do it.
As someone else posted, it’s very much intentional: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/whenever_i_open_a_youtube_video_in_a_new_tab_its/k9w3ei4/