db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoYoutube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.old.reddit.comexternal-linkmessage-square479fedilinkarrow-up12.7Karrow-down154cross-posted to: degoogle@lemmy.ml
arrow-up12.64Karrow-down1external-linkYoutube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.old.reddit.comdb0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square479fedilinkcross-posted to: degoogle@lemmy.ml
minus-squareares35@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down1·10 months agothis isn’t much different than when microsoft added code specifically to break windows 3.1 when run under dr-dos instead of their own ms-dos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
minus-squareLmaydev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up73·10 months agoAnd it cost them 280 million in the 90s ouch
minus-squaretetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down1·10 months agoSomething tells me they survived.
this isn’t much different than when microsoft added code specifically to break windows 3.1 when run under dr-dos instead of their own ms-dos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
And it cost them 280 million in the 90s ouch
Something tells me they survived.