Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

Yeah, it's time for Google to be broken up into pieces because of anti-competitive laws and really get back to making America into a capitalistic society once again.

Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

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Post by croisillon » Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 2:02 PM UTC

with ublock i never had problems and no ads either

Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

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Post by louky » Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 2:04 PM UTC

Glad I saw this - I thought it was some local issue. Amazingly laggy for me with firefox/Debian 12. I restarted firefox thinking it was the problem, apparently not. Very high CPU usage as well.

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Post by eadmund » Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 2:04 PM UTC

YouTube is barely usable on Google’s YouTube app on Google’s Pixel phones running Google’s Android OS at the moment.

It used to be that if one were watching one YouTube video and followed a YouTube link to another, that one would be prompted to either enqueue that video or go to it immediately. I used that all the time to enqueue an evening’s worth of videos.

Now, each link interrupts the current video and starts playing. Which means that I instead have to watch the video, then go back to my list of videos to watch, then select another one.

Also, it used to be that YouTube links would just open in the YouTube app. This was nice. Now, they open in an embedded version of the app, which means that my current app (say, an RSS reader) is blocked until I finish watching.

It’s all so annoying. Why does Google make the experience of using its own products worse?

Oh, yeah: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41337899

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Post by Ygg2 » Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 2:05 PM UTC

I've noticed background Youtube Tabs, seem to eat memory like crazy. At one point I swear it went to 20GiB of RAM.

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Post by supermatt » Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 2:07 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

Google has been degrading YouTube in Firefox for me for about six months. Where are the antitrust enforcers when you need them?

Have you reported it to them? I have nothing but praise for the EC on the way they have handled the few complaints I have registered regarding such things.

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Post by PaulHoule » Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 2:07 PM UTC

eadmund wrote: post #7

YouTube is barely usable on Google’s YouTube app on Google’s Pixel phones running Google’s Android OS at the moment. It used to be that if one were watching one YouTube video and followed a YouTube link to another, that one would be prompted to either enqueue that video or go to it immediately. I used that all the time to enqueue an evening’s worth of videos. Now, each link interrupts the current video and starts pla…

My take is that Google products have always punished people who have bad internet connections. 10 years ago I had a crappy DSL connection which could usually handle Netflix, Amazon Video, etc. YouTube was unreliable.

Google Meet never worked well for me, even after I got my ADSL upgraded to a more reasonable 20Mbps. Zoom works fine. Skype works fine. Discord works fine. The chat built into Slack... works fine. Google is a standout.