[Short entry] Google plays dirty with YouTube

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"Don't be evil" has long been a vague reminder of the principles that guided Google at the dawn of the last decade. Today it reminds us of the Microsoft of the mid-90s that was getting a good beating from antitrust regulators.

The company has used all kinds of strategies to push people to use its Chrome browser, some more legitimate than others. The latest trick, which can be consulted at

, consists of using an obsolete API only available in Chrome that makes the page load 5 times slower than in Chrome if Youtube is visited from Firefox or Edge.

In that same tweet, the link to a Firefox extension that solves this performance problem is published.

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