• Wes_Dev
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    1 year ago

    Bet it’s done in such a way that they can claim “We’re just optimizing for Chrome, not slowing down any competitors. It’s not our fault our competitors don’t using our web engine for their browsers.”

    I mentioned similar shading behavior on another post, when using Firefox with Chrome or native user agents on the plain old Google search page.

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      1 year ago

      It’s apparently not even subtle enough to make that claim, it checks the useragent and sleeps for 5 seconds if it’s not Chrome.

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        1 year ago

        I was wondering why YouTube started taking a while to load pages in the last couple weeks. Fucking Google, pulling this shit.

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      1 year ago

      You seem to be quite in the know, would you say that this happens often across the tech space or is this a case of web platform, and in some cases the browser developers acting out?

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        1 year ago

        Oh, I have no idea. It’s just something I noticed previously, and has a similar thing to this post, so I thought I’d mention it. I don’t have any inside or expert knowledge here.