Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube

Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by three_seagrass on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:47PM (#23227477)

IIRC that's because YT switched to polymer, and since Mozilla doesn't support the new shadow dom APIs yet, YT serves it with the older version.

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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by drdeca on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:04PM (#23227677)

My understanding is that the "deliberate slowing" reported, was such that if you have firefox send a chrome user agent, that one gets faster (and functional) results.

Is that consistent with the "it is because FF doesn't support new thing yet" explanation?

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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by three_seagrass on Monday May 18, 2020 @06:32PM (#23229154)

No because again, IIRC, sending a chrome user agent to YT in FF breaks a lot of the functionality.

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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by ric2b on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @08:09AM (#23233933)

Does it? What stops working, since I haven't noticed anything?

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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by drdeca on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @03:34AM (#23232247)

Ah, “the parts that work are faster but a lot of it is broken” does seem like it suggests the benign explanation

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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by thejsa on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @01:42AM (#23231594)

I believe it was that YT was using the legacy v0 shadow DOM API that only Chrom[e|ium] supported, with a slow polyfill for other browsers, rather than the much better supported v1 API that all other major browser makers agreed to implement.

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