Google slows down Firefox users when watching YouTube....Raccoonn@lemmy.ml to Firefox@lemmy.ml – 767 points – 12 months agofosspost.orgGoogle slows down Firefox users when watching YouTube....103Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentNah this doesn't make sense. You, and everyone else, will sit through five seconds of loading vs watching an ad. You know this, Google know this. Occams razor is at play here. If they want to to be conspiratorial, they have better and smarter ways to do it.As someone else posted, it's very much intentional: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/whenever_i_open_a_youtube_video_in_a_new_tab_its/k9w3ei4/2 more...
Nah this doesn't make sense. You, and everyone else, will sit through five seconds of loading vs watching an ad. You know this, Google know this. Occams razor is at play here. If they want to to be conspiratorial, they have better and smarter ways to do it.As someone else posted, it's very much intentional: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/whenever_i_open_a_youtube_video_in_a_new_tab_its/k9w3ei4/2 more...
As someone else posted, it's very much intentional: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/whenever_i_open_a_youtube_video_in_a_new_tab_its/k9w3ei4/
Nah this doesn't make sense. You, and everyone else, will sit through five seconds of loading vs watching an ad. You know this, Google know this.
Occams razor is at play here. If they want to to be conspiratorial, they have better and smarter ways to do it.
As someone else posted, it's very much intentional: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/whenever_i_open_a_youtube_video_in_a_new_tab_its/k9w3ei4/