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Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. (old.reddit.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 11 months ago (4 children)

It would be nice if FTC or someone would sue them for anticompetitive behavior.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And, you know, broke them up into many smaller companies.

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

I wonder to what extent this will help, in the case of YouTube? Its so dominant of that market. Is it purely fiscal or also technical?

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

It probably would help, as Google couldn’t connect their advertising services that easily with YouTube, and both parties would have to be more independent.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Youtube is a money pit. If it had to split from Google, they will need to up monitization pronto or shut down. While I do want Google broken like Bane cracking Batman, there will be casualities. Too many parts of our internet infrastructure exist via subsidization and we use them like utilities. It is going to be messy out there if the FTC succeeds.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If your company need to do illegal shit to exist, your company needs to stop existing.

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

Agreed. I feel the same way about youtube going as Reddit did. For some of us, it is just a fun thing. Some people need it because it is their best access to knowledge. I worry for those who need it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

There are two US antitrust cases against Google right now:

U.S. and Plaintiff States v. Google LLC (2020) (in trial; list of many documents)
U.S. and Plaintiff States v. Google LLC (2023) (Complaint PDF)

The first is related to things like paying to be the default search engine on iPhone, Firefox, etc. The second is related to ad tech. Neither really directly addresses the issues that average people have with Google's behavior though, so keep filing complaints!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Google gets sued for this shit all the time, but do you think you're going to hear about this on Google or Youtube?

Case in point, very few people know that they got sued for protecting multiple pedophiles as they were grooming kids on their platform.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Small government has entered the chat

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

I’m not sure I follow.