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YouTube is reportedly slowing down videos for Firefox users (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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YouTube is reportedly slowing down videos for Firefox users::Users are reporting that YouTube has begun adding a five second delay when loading a video on non-Chrome browsers like Firefox. Read on!

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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

The video in the article does not clear caches before retrying and seeing a faster load. Amateur hour.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They actually found a 5-second sleep embedded in the JavaScript, so it's not the cache.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Depends, in the original Reddit thread, someone already pointed out that this 5s delay is to wait for some ad thing and then execute code if it doesn’t work within this timeframe. So… depending on what gets cached, blocked, loaded,… it might behave differently on a reload depending on cached data

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    They found something which waits for five seconds and then does something. At least part of the thing in question was removing some stuff from the DOM - I couldn't understand anything else from the minified JS. That is not a smoking gun.

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