Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.
Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.
Posted in r/youtube by u/vk6_ • 2,933 points and 264 comments
![Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5548df5f-9ba7-476c-8222-858e61e4a9b1.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
You're viewing a single thread.
"Do no evil1"
1 unless we can make money from it.
81 2 ReplyThere's a reason that doesn't appear on their site or in their docs any more. It was a canary clause.
13 1 ReplyAny organisation that needs to remind themselves not to be evil is already intrinsically evil.
9 5 ReplyVery overtly and loudly claiming a quality which should be self-evident in oneself, one's company or one's nation invariably means it's not really there.
8 1 Reply"People's Democratic Republic"
6 0 Reply"The Greatest Democracy In The World" - Lots of US politicians, including those activelly engaged in gerrymandering and passing vote supression laws.
The dictum, supposedly from Einstein, about only the universe and human stupidity being infinite, needs to be ammended to include hypocrisy.
2 0 ReplyThe country with the most Freedom™*
*Freedom™ must be redeemed in Freedom™ tokens; sufficient Freedom™ tokens entitles you to trample others' Freedom™; insufficient Freedom™ tokens entitles you to die in the gutter
2 0 Reply
I think they changed it didn't they?
6 0 ReplyI think it's "do the right thing" now
3 0 ReplyFor the shareholders
4 0 ReplyAhh, much more leeway
2 0 Reply
Right - "Do no evil" uhhh... Is that not your default setting?
3 1 Reply
I feel like there's scales of evil here Google starts to need to highlight on a whiteboard
3 0 ReplyActually, their slogan was "Don't be evil." But they revised it recently by adding a comma after the first word.
3 0 ReplyNot anymore: they ditched it for "do the right thing (for my wallet)" a couple years back
3 0 ReplyI mean... "evil" is arbitrary, right?
4 1 ReplyNot arbitrary enough that they thought they could keep saying it. They ditched that about a decade ago.
2 0 Reply"It's evil not to make as much money as possible", Google founders. C-suite and board, probably.
1 0 Reply