Comment by tamimio

6 months ago

And they do the same thing with YouTube by slowing down the initial load in other browsers. Google is evil, and this is the least of it.

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ziml77  6 months ago

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  • shakna  6 months ago

    Changing Firefox's UserAgent to Chrome's, results in a speed-up. Because when the useragent isn't Chrome, YouTube checks for feature availability, whilst on Chrome, they just assume it is all there.

    • ziml77  6 months ago

      Thanks for giving me a specific example. At this point in the evolution of web standards and their implementations, that kind of UA check is stupid enough that I can believe there is at least some level of intent to not also making assumptions about available features on other browsers.