Comment by duringmath
2 years ago
> For me, YouTube works equally well across Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Other team members also could not replicate this delayed behavior across browsers.
"Reportedly" also known as: "unable to confirm but we saw it on reddit so it must be true"
I am so damn sick of "news" articles summarizing social media posts. Worse, the posts are seemingly chosen at random without even going to the effort of contacting the poster, not that such an interview would improve anything.
If I wanted to read what random Twitter users thought about a topic, I'd just read Twitter. I read news articles to learn from experts I wouldn't otherwise have access to, not random Reddit trolls, Instagram moms, and Russian Twitter bots.
Google is constantly running "experiments" in their products so even if you and your friends can't replicate it, doesn't mean that it's not happening.
Doesn't mean it is happening either especially since the code in question is still present.
At any rare you should probably confirm/disconfirm these kinds of allegations before you decide to publish it verbatim.