• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    They were literally caught artificially slowing down page loads and responsiveness on non-chrome browsers a while back.

    • Raymonf@lemmy.uhhoh.com
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      1 year ago

      Do you mean the time when YouTube’s UI was built using a pre-standardized version of the Shadow DOM API, and had to polyfill it in Firefox? If so, that was tech debt, not artificially slowing down page loads for Firefox on purpose. It was a tradeoff that let non-Chrome users use YouTube until they finally upgraded a year or two later.

      If that’s not it, I’d love to see what you’re referring to.