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Mastodon founder touts Threads' federation, saying it makes his X rival 'a far more attractive option' (techcrunch.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The code specifically looked for "Firefox" in your UA and started a 5 second wait timer. There's no way it was a bug, you don't just add idle waits into your website.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I mean I've seen some weird workarounds when stuff isn't loading in when they're supposed to..

But yeah this is probably not that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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