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[-] Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml 47 points 11 months 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.

[-] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

[-] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 16 points 11 months ago

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

[-] funnystuff97@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Not that I don't believe you, but do you have a source for that?

[-] festus@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's discussed in the firefox sub (link)

EDIT: There are some claims that this is related to anti-adblock.

[-] spader312@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

If changing your user agent to Chrome on Firefox fixes it that justification won't fly

[-] Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 months 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?

[-] Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months 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.

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