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Google slows down Firefox users when watching YouTube....
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Nah this doesn't make sense. You, and everyone else, will sit through five seconds of loading vs watching an ad. You know this, Google know this.
Occams razor is at play here. If they want to to be conspiratorial, they have better and smarter ways to do it.
I think it's naive to think google would do this, which is so easily bypassed, when they have so many better options that wouldn't get the European courts frothing. Again, occams razor