Comment by amelius
2 years ago
> They could have easily slowed down serving of JS files (and other assets) based on the user agent to a similar effect.
And that is /not/ easily discoverable??
2 years ago
> They could have easily slowed down serving of JS files (and other assets) based on the user agent to a similar effect.
And that is /not/ easily discoverable??
I would argue it's a bit harder to find if the youtube backend serves files slower for certain browsers. One could even radomize it and sometimes still serve it fast or something. Since you cannot look at the backend code it would be hard to proof anything.