They are really the worst scumbags ever. They want world domination.

Ah, I was wondering why YouTube was taking so long to load recently. I thought it was just because their code was shit, and it turns out I was right, but not in the way I thought.

I smell a spicy lawsuit

They do the same shit for Google search results. Search weather or stock tickers with a Chrome user agent* and you get a rich, interactive chart of the weather forecast or stock history. Search with another mobile user agent and you get a static snapshot of the weather or stock price at an instant in time.

There's even an extension for Firefox for Android which changes the user agent for Google searches to Chrome, to get the rich content.

* just a user agent, not an actual browser, which proves that it isn't about browser capability, but rather abusing their monopolistic market position in search to further their web browser's market share. Sound familiar, Microsoft from the 90's?

This cant be legal

I didn't see it, I guess ublock again saved my ass before I could realize it.

Did this dude really just link a Reddit post?

Let's hope Europe stars investigating Google as a gatekeeper. That seemed to work miracles on Apple.

So they're doing the same thing as that time they killed Edge and stretched its skin over chromium?

Stop using youtube. It is made of poop.

So, how to spoof chrome?

So thats why it was buffering 24/7

"Ok, so blocking adblock hasn't worked" "Let's just slow them down" "That's a great idea, no-one will ever notice"

• Winning lines from the competitive glue sniffing awards

Lately (few months) YouTube will not load whatsoever on my android phone nor tablet very often, activating a VPN fixes it instantly. Using basic YouTube app

Bruh. I thought that was uBlock bypassing the ad or something.

Reminds me of the "Netscape Navigator has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" errors that Windows 98 used to throw.

It would only throw one, and you could just move it out of the way and keep using Netscape.

Holy fuck I hope they get the pants sued off of them

Huh, I noticed YouTube videos taking a little extra longer to load.

I noticed logging out of your YouTube account helps.

I just opened a private window in Firefox.

Time to start copying those videos, irrespective of copyright, onto PeerTube instances.