• HATEFISH@midwest.social
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    11 months ago

    Exhibit A: see how Google idly fucks with Firefox by getting it to run around in circles the way you might idly taunt your friends cat with a laser pointer

    What is this referring to?

    • 27myths@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Probably talking about how there was code found in YouTube that makes playing videos slower on Firefox. It was supposedly a bug but I believe this happened recently along with Google declaring war on ad blockers. So obviously a lot of people believe it wasn’t just a bug.

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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      11 months ago

      I don’t know if they had some specific thing on their mind, but generally Firefox pretty much needs to do whatever Google wants with the web standards, because Firefox is close to becoming irrelevant (which is a damn shame, I’ve been using that browser for forever).

      • Anony Moose@lemmy.ca
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        11 months ago

        Also, Google is a (the?) major source of funding for Mozilla, so they have a lot of clout with them.