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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.

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Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.

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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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    “Do no evil1”

    1 unless we can make money from it.

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      There’s a reason that doesn’t appear on their site or in their docs any more. It was a canary clause.

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      I feel like there’s scales of evil here Google starts to need to highlight on a whiteboard

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      Actually, their slogan was “Don’t be evil.” But they revised it recently by adding a comma after the first word.

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      Not anymore: they ditched it for “do the right thing (for my wallet)” a couple years back

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      I mean… “evil” is arbitrary, right?

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        Not arbitrary enough that they thought they could keep saying it. They ditched that about a decade ago.

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        “It’s evil not to make as much money as possible”, Google founders. C-suite and board, probably.

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      Any organisation that needs to remind themselves not to be evil is already intrinsically evil.

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        I think they changed it didn’t they?

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          I think it’s “do the right thing” now

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            For the shareholders

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            Ahh, much more leeway

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        Right - “Do no evil” uhhh… Is that not your default setting?

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