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[Spyxos]

Can mods please move it to Off topic? Mod of War: Remastered thanks.

 

[gaming_again]

I thought I was going crazy.

I'm also convinced that ad time 1 sec = 1.1 actual seconds on every browser.

 

[64bitmodels]

Can someone just break up big tech already?

 

[MMaRsu]

Im not getting that on Firefox, Adblock Plus.

Maybe 1 out of 50 times, it will do that, but I feel its just an ad getting in the way and APB scrambling to destroy it before I see it.

 

[IFireflyl]

Google is pathetic.

 

[K' Dash]

Can someone just break up big tech already?

we desperately need this.

 

[Skifi28]

Great, we can't even watch our ads properly these days.

 

[winjer]

Alphabet needs to get one of those big antitrust lawsuits, to take it a notch down.
The amount of anti-consumer and anti-competition tactics they are using in recent times, is staggering.
I remember when MS was sued for having IE in Windows, but now Google is doing much worse and nothing happens.

 

[Portugeezer]

Doesn't surprise me.

The same owners of android that locks a basic Android feature, such as picture in picture, behind YouTube premium paywall.

 

[consoul]

Gaming Forum

 

[tylrdiablos]

There's literally some javascript code in the YouTube webpage that adds an artificial 5 second delay.
If you have UBlock Origin added to your Firefox, click the UBlock Origin icon, then open the Dashboard, open My Filters and paste this line in:

www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), *, 0.001)

Click Apply Changes.

 

[Kadve]

You don't even have to spoof it. A simple U-block filter will also do the trick.



Not only did they do it but they apparently did it in the most lazy way possible.

(edit) also not he first time.

Google Deliberately Slowed YouTube on Rival Browsers | Tech.co

According to two high-ups at Mozilla, Google deliberately slowed YouTube on Firefox and Edge to make Chrome seem better

tech.co

Google denies altering YouTube code to slow down Microsoft Edge

Google disputed the claims made by Joshua Bakita, a former software engineering intern at Microsoft, who said that the company added a “hidden empty div over YouTube videos” that slowed down streaming on Microsoft Edge.

tech.hindustantimes.com

 

[Putonahappyface]

Opera still fighting the good fight.

 

[MikeM]

Is that even legal?

 

[Spyxos]

Gaming Forum

My bad didn't see it. Can mods please move it to Off topic? Mod of War: Remastered

 

[Kadve]

Is that even legal?

Nope. But you have to prove it being a deliberate act by Alphabet first.

 

[Unknown?]

Invidious

Invidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube.

invidious.io

Problem solved and no ads!

 

[Topher]

Is that even legal?

Probably not. Now watch as government regulators charge Google millions of dollars in fines.

Meanwhile......google.....

 

[64bitmodels]

Now watch as government regulators charge Google millions of dollars in fines.

Charging even 800 million from google as a "fine" is like charging someone 15 dollars as a 'fine' for running someone over.


Then again when the government is recieving money from these corporations, slaps on the wrist are naturally how far 'punishments' are going to go.

 

[Tommi84]

Remember when Google removed "don't be evil" thing?

Well, here's why

 

[Draugoth]

They are just making things worse to themselves

 

[blastprocessor]

YouTube ran slow on Edge (prior to using what is essentially Chrome today).

 

[Mr Moose]

Doesn't happen to me, thankfully. Then again I never got the disable adblocker thing when others did (I use uBlock Origin).

 

[Ronin_7]

Google dominating the Internet was a Big mistake.

Wonder what could be done to such a dominant company.

 

[diffusionx]

Alphabet needs to get one of those big antitrust lawsuits, to take it a notch down.
The amount of anti-consumer and anti-competition tactics they are using in recent times, is staggering.
I remember when MS was sued for having IE in Windows, but now Google is doing much worse and nothing happens.

there is one, going on right now as we speak

it's not being talked about as much because the media is slavish to big tech and relies on it for its existence

 

[xrnzaaas]

I definitely noticed this recently, but couldn't confirm it as I don't use any other browsers than Firefox. At least good to know the issue isn't with my ISP.

 

[Facism]

this was actually happening to me yesterday, using chrome. Thought it was ublock doing it's Godly work blocking those cunty ads.

 

[jm89]

Nothing new.

I've had random problems with YouTube on Firefox for years.

Same with Google maps, runs like shit.

 

[mitchman]

Alphabet needs to get one of those big antitrust lawsuits, to take it a notch down.
The amount of anti-consumer and anti-competition tactics they are using in recent times, is staggering.
I remember when MS was sued for having IE in Windows, but now Google is doing much worse and nothing happens.

MS was sued for forcing OEM PC manufacturers to not bundle Netscape. If they bundled Netscape, they would not get the license for Windows. Pretty bad stuff. IE itself was never a problem if not used for anti-competitive reasons, but they were also forced to open up the playing field for competition middleware, and not use private APIs etc. not available for competitors.

 

[winjer]

MS was sued for forcing OEM PC manufacturers to not bundle Netscape. If they bundled Netscape, they would not get the license for Windows. Pretty bad stuff. IE itself was never a problem if not used for anti-competitive reasons, but they were also forced to open up the playing field for competition middleware, and not use private APIs etc. not available for competitors.

In the EU, they were sued for having IE bundled with Windows.
That's why, to this day, there is the Windows N. For example, Windows 11 Pro N.

 

[SkylineRKR]

I use uBlock on firefox and it blocks everything on YT too but they do send warnings now and then, Firefox is indeed slow with YT lately.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Was wondering why stuff was taking longer to load in, Only recently switched to FireFox recently due to all this Ad blocking BS they were fucking around with.

 

[phant0m]

i don't see this at all but i also pay for YT Premium. And i block Google DNS + use pihole (not sure if it's relevant or not)

 

[Panajev2001a]

Alphabet needs to get one of those big antitrust lawsuits, to take it a notch down.
The amount of anti-consumer and anti-competition tactics they are using in recent times, is staggering.
I remember when MS was sued for having IE in Windows, but now Google is doing much worse and nothing happens.

Let’s be fair, nothing is being done about modern MS or Apple either . That is the problem.

 

[AJUMP23]

Google sucks.

How do I get my adblocker to still work on Youtube.,

 

[Unknown?]

Google sucks.

How do I get my adblocker to still work on Youtube.,

Don't use official YT? There's Invidious, Piped, Freetube.

 

[geary]

I’m getting exactly that on Opera. And it started few days ago. After the adblock ban, now this….Fuck Google.

 

[deriks]

I thought I was going crazy.

I'm also convinced that ad time 1 sec = 1.1 actual seconds on every browser.

I'm using Premium since ever, so I don't remember exactly, but I really suspect that the ads were getting slower to open, basically getting a 5 seconds ad to take 10 seconds

YouTube is getting bad by the byte

 

[AJUMP23]

Don't use official YT? There's Invidious, Piped, Freetube.

I appreciate this, but none of these solutions work on my office PC.

 

[Mephisto40]

Genuinely thought i was going mental when this started happening last week, this explains it

 

[poodaddy]

Nope. But you have to prove it being a deliberate act by Alphabet first.

This.

With the proper legal defense, almost anything can be waived off as a mistake or a "misunderstood directive", a term that was used fairly liberally when I was in the Army.

What Google did here is text book anti competitive, open shut stuff, but proving it was deliberate is nigh on impossible.

 

[winjer]

I appreciate this, but none of these solutions work on my office PC.

Use UBlock Origin. Go to options and enable Ublok in private tabs.
Then right click on a youtube video and select open in private window.

 

[Unknown?]

I appreciate this, but none of these solutions work on my office PC.

Invidious and piped are browser based, are they blocked on that network? That's crazy since it's just the YT back end.

 

[WhamBamThankYouMaam]

Same with safari?

 

[Aenima]

Google sucks.

How do I get my adblocker to still work on Youtube.,

Get uBlock Origin.

 

[Fbh]

For some reason Youtube has always worked like crap for me on Firefox.
As soon as you set it to like 1080p it struggles to run smoothly while it works perfectly fine on Chrome (and other chromium based browsers)

 

[hinch7]

There's literally some javascript code in the YouTube webpage that adds an artificial 5 second delay.
If you have UBlock Origin added to your Firefox, click the UBlock Origin icon, then open the Dashboard, open My Filters and paste this line in:

www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), *, 0.001)

Click Apply Changes.

Gamechanger. Thought it was strange opening up new windows and it taking ages to load.

Thanks and fuck Google for this.

 

[AJUMP23]

Get uBlock Origin.

I have it. I think I fixed it now. but YT was detecting it and telling me I only had a couple of views left.

 

[Pelta88]

I noticed this but I'm more annoyed by them trying to circumvent my add blocker on Firefox. Youtube be like...

"You have 3 free views remaining."

 

[Shake Your Rump]

I wondered what the hell had been going on the past couple days. Videos taking longer to load than usual. (iOS safari)