They've done this before, a long time ago, with IE11. For those that only remember its early years, later releases of Internet Explorer were actually decently compliant - but Google still prevented them from accessing places like Google Maps for having improper support. User agent switchers caused it to display perfectly.
this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023
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I haven't even noticed bc my internet is only 2 Mbps
This is antitrust worthy
I'm not seeing any delays, 5 second or otherwise, when using Firefox.
What if we are already using YouTube premium and have ublock on FF. Would user agent spoof still be needed??
How annoying.
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I had a feeling this was the case. Youtube has been painful for the past month now.
In addition to the fact that I remember this happening several years ago, I'm pretty sure this has been an issue for a while. When I decided to exclusively use Firefox about a year ago, YouTube as a whole would load slowly and it still does.
And I hate the fact that Google knows that they will benefit from this because, unfortunately, a majority of YouTube users are sheeple.
I started noticing how sometimes youtube just seemingly refused to load fully on my phone. I thought it was just my crap internet. But since I use Iceraven, a fork of firefox, it seems that may be why.
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Fuck Google