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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)

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notfromhere@lemmy.one
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It would be nice if FTC or someone would sue them for anticompetitive behavior.

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guyrocket@kbin.social
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And, you know, broke them up into many smaller companies.

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stellargmite@lemmy.world
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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?

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Quik@infosec.pub
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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.

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e0qdk@kbin.social
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There are two US antitrust cases against Google right now:

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!

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Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
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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.

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LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world
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Small government has entered the chat

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notfromhere@lemmy.one
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I’m not sure I follow.

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