If that’s real, I’m pretty sure the EU will have something to say about that, as well as the FCC. That’s a flagrant violation of net neutrality.
They just slightly increase their budget for legal fines…
Along with the FTC and DOJ (one can hope)
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quick, question. Would you be willing to pay for a “premium” video hosting website? I’m not doing s study I’m just curious. Caz I think paying isn’t the problem it’s yt, We know very well that it can survive with moderate ads, but what about a payed platform that has no ads and doesn’t sell your data?
Shoutout to nebula. Depending on how much content you consume it might not be enough for you, but it’s cool to have an independent platform doing stuff.
Fuck no. They ain’t paid me for using my data for their myriad skullduggerous bullshit behind the scenes. When I start getting paid per-document for everything of mine they use to train their LLMs and shit, that’s the day I consider paying for YT Premium-- and even then I probably won’t; cause the shit STILL costs too much per month.
Nice try reddit.
I fuckin knew it! I could’ve sworn this was happening. I would switch to brave to watch something and would be able to no problem. Fuckin bastards.
Huh. I had noticed that.
If Youtube isn’t allowed to check my browser if I use ublock origin. Is it allowed to check what browser I use and restrict curtain things?
Yes, user agents are legal. You send YouTube your user agent, it’s not mandatory.
the reddit link is trying to force me to log in. Has reddit changed its policies again?
The link is wrong. Here’s the correct one
https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/17z8hsz/youtube_has_started_to_artificially_slow_down/
Using Firefox, I have always had User agent switcher handy. It’s a huge shame but it stops from this kind of stupid shit from happening.
I had noticed too. Although I mostly use FreeTube by now I am a tab hoarder and if I open a YouTube tab with a video in Firefox it does take a few seconds until the page is displayed correctly after the tab has finished loading.
But the video loads faster than you watch the video, so what’s the point?
Edit: Okay I checked the evidence. It’s loading the page, not video buffering. But the evidence is extremely unscientific and bullshit so I’d reserve judgement until someone actually looks into it properly. The top comments are also pointing out even weaker evidence. There is some code that waits for a five second timer to finish, but the page doesn’t take 5 seconds or even .5 seconds to load, so that’s obviously not to slow down the page load. There are plenty of legitimate use cases for waiting for everything to load and the user to start engaging before worrying about whatever secondary tasks.
