Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. - eviltoast
  • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Blatantly anticompetitive behavior where you (ab)use your dominance in one sector (i.e. YouTube) to choke out competition in another (i.e. make it slow on competing browsers) is illegal in the US and the EU, at the very least. I don’t know the specific laws or acts in play, but that’s the sort of thing that triggers antitrust lawsuits