Gregory's Serveryes it is certainly the case that it is completely coincidental that the 5000 ms pause never activates on Chrome but always activates on Firefox.
where is my sarcasm font?
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 @tay @dashdsrdash @corbin @grs @josephcox It's at the least incredibly suspicious that changing your browser header (regardless of account or cookies) instantly resolves the issue though...  @Purple @tay @dashdsrdash @grs @josephcox it could be resetting some cache, or a bug, or a lot of other things because web development is kind of a mess  @corbin @Purple @tay @dashdsrdash @josephcox Or its dirty tricks, just like it looks like. Some strange alphabettispaghetti apologist logic there. @grs @Purple @tay @dashdsrdash @josephcox google says itβs targeting ad blockers and the screen recording that started all of this literally has ublock origin in the toolbar. please use basic thinking skills before calling other people names, thanks. @corbin @grs @tay @dashdsrdash @josephcox The same video also shows that the problem goes away after spoofing the browser header, while uBlock is still active... So I'm not entirely sure if that argument is entirely valid @corbin @tay @dashdsrdash @grs @josephcox Obviously! But considering how confinient this is for Google we should be very skeptical about things like these happening. Especially as a lot users seem to report the same issue while there are no known reports from this happening to chrome users. If Microsoft ends up making chrome slower on their websites compared to edge in a similar manner I'd also be concerned about it. @corbin Why are you so intent to fight for googles good name in this thread? @doug @Purple @tay @dashdsrdash @grs @josephcox two reasons: 1. there needs to be good evidence for claims, redditors and a bunch of blogs covered a few reports and didnβt dig into it, 404 was the first one that actually pieced something together. at this point the people alleging a conspiracy just want to believe in it. 2. people should be paid for their labor, making youtube videos (and hosting them) is labor. the people who want to watch the video without ads or premium contribute nothing. @doug @Purple @tay @dashdsrdash @grs @josephcox iβm not βfighting for google,β iβm annoyed because this entire discourse is ridiculous. itβs a bunch of people who have decided that 3 sec ads are the end of the world, and are looking for any excuse to justify it, and the latest one was claiming youtube was blocking firefox users. we now know that was false. if you donβt like ads, pay for premium. if you donβt like either of those things then eventually we get no youtube. thatβs how this works.  @corbin @doug @Purple @tay @dashdsrdash @grs @josephcox You aren't fighting for Google, you're just repeating their talking points uncritically. Which, since this is the internet, amounts to the same thing. The tiny percentage of youtube's market using ublock to skip ads on YouTube aren't the problem and never were. They are the bulwark. The canary in the coal mine. When that population spikes, it's always because the content providers have changed the agreement for the worse. |
@dashdsrdash @corbin @grs @josephcox local end user learns about AB testing