Firefox users are reporting an ‘artificial’ load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it’s part of a plan to make people who use adblockers “experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using.”

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    1 year ago

    Alphabet’s monopoly is bad, make no mistake.

    But they aren’t controlling all electronic means of communication for 90% of the continental United States, as AT&T did in the ma’ bell and pa’ bell days.

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      1 year ago

      Uh… Gmail, Ad sense, search?

      They’ve got like a dozen duopolies going on, they have far more control and ability to leverage it than Bell ever did