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[–] [email protected] 529 points 11 months ago (34 children)

The fuck?? Isn’t this anti competitive behaviour?

[–] [email protected] 336 points 11 months ago (2 children)

In a previous generation, governments would go after this blatant anti competitive behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 225 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 159 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It’s just a shame that there’s really only one government organization globally that will still stand up to corporations.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To be fair China will send you to a reeducation camp or disappear you if you try to act like a western billionaire.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago

China will make you disappear for many things including speaking up against the genocide of religious minorities ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Honestly with the speed new BS crops up I don’t think they will.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The current US Federal Trade Commission is quite agressive compared to other FTCs historically.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

True. Though they have been stuck with 30 years of damage simply reverse too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Think of it as 30 years of rent they're now claiming.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Yes, but they haven't fixed this specific problem that just broke in the last day or so, therefore the FTC is a corrupt useless organization that pours hot wax on kittens

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

then why do we have like 4 conglomerates making everything in the grocery store?

[–] [email protected] 137 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Some people are reporting it happens when your accounts get flagged by YouTube for blocking ads and that using a private browsing session can be used to bypass it, so it's possible this isn't a blanket thing?

Either way, they can go fuck themselves.

If you're on Firefox and using uBlock Origin (which you should), you can add the following to your filters list to essentially disable the delay:

! Bypass 5 seconds delay added by YouTube
www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), 5000, 0.001)

It doesn't fully disable it, just makes it almost instant, because Google has been doing shit like looking at what gets blocked to combat ad blockers recently.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use youtube without logging in, and it runs normally. If I use a private window, that's when I get a delay when loading videos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Good God I would hate to see the Mr Beast hell that your front page must be

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Once you start watching videos, you still get recommendations based on your viewing even if not logged in. As long as I don't clear my cookies, I basically get the content I'm interested in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I always forget other people still allow cookies etc, I'm over here like an internet hermit, using Libre browser

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I block all third-party cookies, but I do want some basic functionality out of the internet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Thanks I'll get back to this later

[–] [email protected] 58 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Do you want to hear about the Microsoft "bug" that affected Firefox that was only recently fixed after 5+ years of getting reported?

Corporations really hate non-profit products that are superior.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

If you're networked with the right people in the US, laws don't matter

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes. It is. And consumers can't do a thing about it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Anti trust that evil Google

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