• HKPiax@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I love Firefox, but I can’t shake the feeling that it is slower on YouTube. My tinfoil hat theory is that Google somehow throttles YouTube on Firefox.

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      7 months ago

      I’m pretty sure someone discovered that is true recently, but can’t be assed to try to find it right now.

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      7 months ago

      It’s not tinfoil, they have been caught doing it and they continue to do it. It’s a scumbag company.

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      7 months ago

      Well, Google will probably optimize their shit for their own privacy invasion sniffing tool browser twice as hard as for Firefox and such

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      7 months ago

      For YouTube on IOS, I use Brave. It does a decent (but not perfect) job of hiding ads on YT.

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      7 months ago

      Do you use YouTube so much that a small performance difference on a single Site has an influence on your browser choice?

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      7 months ago

      You haven’t experienced slow until you try to take Firefox through Google Cloud Console or Search Tools. 15 seconds in Chrome, somehow turns into 3 minutes in Firefox, funny how it does that.

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      7 months ago

      Same happens with Safari. The page loads in a weird funky way, video sorta first and then comments and suggestions many seconds later.

      On Chrome on the exact same computer it’s instant.

      They’re doing it on purpose.

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      7 months ago

      Google somehow throttles YouTube on Firefox.

      Because they do. A while back, it was discovered they were injecting delays if they detected Firefox as your user agent.

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      7 months ago

      Ironically I use a chrome type browser for YouTube and mail checking only. This is also the only browser in which I am logged in with my Google account.

      My main Firefox is for everything else including search.

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        7 months ago

        That’s a really weird take. Like… what even is the difference supposed to be?

        This sounds more like “everything should be as it was back when <insert arbitrary point in time here>! When there were still Webpages, and we were frolicking about the internet! Until the fire nation attacked Web apps took over!”

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          7 months ago

          Basically I am saying Firefox is not as performant as chromium when loading JavaScript.

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            Don’t agree, nothing noticeable for me anyhow. Chrome has the ultimate drawback: being under the control of a monopolistic evil corporation

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          Umm yeah? Like I do like access to collaborative software within browser so that’s kind of important.