YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox

Post by londons_explore » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 11:08 AM UTC

vanderZwan wrote: post #42

enlyth wrote: post #29

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Without studying the minified code I wouldn't assume malice just yet, this could be just an inexperienced developer trying to lazily fix some browser-specific bug, or something that accidentally made it to production like you say

You think they let inexperienced developers touch the YT code base without proper code review? Even if that were the case, which is an extremely charitable assumption, that itself would be malice in my opinion.

Post by progval » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 11:10 AM UTC

throwaw12 wrote: post #38

kjhgksjdfhg wrote: post #27

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I'm not even mad about Google making my artificially wait 5s for using firefox. I'm mad that such a big company with suposelly decent engineers, are making me wait 5s with literally a sleep, how is even possible to do such thing in such a rudimentary way? I would be like damn that was smart, this feels like, seriously this is the level?

IMHO, this kind of things are not done by engineers. * Marketing/Sales asks engineers to add a feature flag to sleep N milliseconds for their research: "how slowing down impacts your revenue" * engineer adds a flag, with different control parameters * Some genius in Product figures this out and updates the experiment to slow down for competitors When company gets a backlash from public: "oops, we forgot to clean up a…

Post by MrNeon » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 11:11 AM UTC

blueflow wrote: post #31

If you are fluent with the terminal, you don't need to suffer from the YT Web UI. Install mpv and yt-dlp. Play videos like this: mpv [--no-video] "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9zVjEZ7W8Q" Option in brackets is optional.

Post by HlessClaudesman » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 11:12 AM UTC

lotsofpulp wrote: post #43

throwaw12 wrote: post #38

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IMHO, this kind of things are not done by engineers. * Marketing/Sales asks engineers to add a feature flag to sleep N milliseconds for their research: "how slowing down impacts your revenue" * engineer adds a flag, with different control parameters * Some genius in Product figures this out and updates the experiment to slow down for competitors When company gets a backlash from public: "oops, we forgot to clean up a…

> * Marketing/Sales asks engineers to add a feature flag to sleep N milliseconds for their research: "how slowing down impacts your revenue" “Research”

Post by wanderingmind » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 11:13 AM UTC

m4tthumphrey wrote: post #48

xkcd1963 wrote: post #18

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Just install adblocker?

Meh.. I could but I have to tolerate them on TV anyway. I may look to install pi-hole one day.