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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 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is this a violation of net neutrality? They are effectively not treating all traffic equally.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All current conversations surrounding Net Neutrality refer to ISPs being neutral. Since this is happening at the browser level, it would not technically be a violation.

For example streaming websites aren't required to support Linux. It's a dick move, but it's not a violation to "block" users.

That isn't to say this isn't a dick move, it absolutely is, but as currently defined it isn't a Net Neutrality issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Hmm, perhaps not net neutrality then, but it could be anti competitive maybe. Like the Internet Explorer fiasco from back in the day.