Yeah, user agent switch to chrome made YouTube vid instantly load. Real shitty google!

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?

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

This cant be legal

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

Did this dude really just link a Reddit post?

Stop using youtube. It is made of poop.

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

"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

So, how to spoof chrome?

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

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

It's long past time to flesh out our antitrust laws to deal with these greedy tech giants.

I noticed logging out of your YouTube account helps.

I just opened a private window in Firefox.