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A comment on Mozilla executive claims that Google has made YouTube slower on Edge and Firefox.

Re:Mozilla executive claims that Google has made YouTube slo... by thecatspaw on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @10:22AM (#17609438)
clickbait title (on the original article).

Google didnt slow down Edge and Firefox on purpose, they simply use an old API, which is still natively supported by chrome, but has to polyfill in Edge and Firefox. This unsurprisingly leads to longer loading/js execution time

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Re:Mozilla executive claims that Google has made YouTube slo... by abraham on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @10:26AM (#17609480)
And YouTube will need a polyfill for Chrome in April when it removes v0 support.
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Re:Mozilla executive claims that Google has made YouTube slo... by drivingmenuts on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @10:31AM (#17609521)
My guess is that they won't remove it, since YT is a major product.
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Re:Mozilla executive claims that Google has made YouTube slo... by jamespo on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @10:24AM (#17609462)
that sounds like plausible deniability
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