At one particular point it was, if I recall correctly, though Chrome also (mis)implements some standards its own way, so Google might also use that as a form of attack against anyone who implements them properly, much like Microsoft did in the bad old IE6 days…

It’s all a silly arms race, though, with Google coming up with new ways to enshittify the web for anyone not using Chrome or using ad blockers and Mozilla and ad blocker (and alternative YouTube frontend) developers trying to figure out what they broke this time and how to fix it, so what worked yesterday might not work today and work again tomorrow.

It’s all a profoundly stupid waste of everyone’s time and resources (all for a few more ad views) which will hopefully end up with Google losing their monopoly position on the web like the Internet Explorer bullshit did for Microsoft, but will keep being a major hassle for everyone until it does.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/youtube-responds-to-delayed-loading-in-rival-browser-complaints, for instance.

Or https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has-sabotaged-firefox-for-years/, for an older one.

As for how to fix it, Mozilla tend to do a pretty good job of eventually working around Google’s bullshit, so keeping the browser updated is a good first step.

Since Google tends to roll this stuff out regionally and doing A/B testing, though, the best way is to identify what specific handicap they’re hassling you with (which specific features don’t work or don’t work right, when they work properly on chrome), and look for an updated add on or userscript to fix that particular issue.

Or you can just look for a generic YouTube or Google Docs “enhancer” add on and hope it fixes the issue without making the whole user experience too different from what you’re used to.

Mainly that Google intentionally makes its sites (like YouTube or Google Docs) slower and less useable when they detect you’re using Firefox, and/or ad blockers (which you need Firefox to use, so same difference).

It’s mostly fixable with add-ons and userscripts (and eventually, one hopes, with an antitrust lawsuit), but it’s still a hassle.

I mean we do, but like one would look at a particularly bloated and grotesque tumour. 🤷‍♂️

Any software intended to cause harm is malware. MBFC is software intended to cause harm. MBFC is malware.

It has malicious intent, therefore it’s malware. 🤷‍♂️

reminiscent of a malware site

Well, that’s because it is malware.

it, is to me at least, right leaning

It’s not right leaning.

It’s disinformation malware whose sole purpose is to move the Overton window as far right as possible.

It labels anything short of outright fascism as far left.

Jupiter is quite more flattened than Earth due to how fast it spins and it being made mostly of gas.

If you want spherical, look at Venus… or, even better, the Sun (not directly, though, of course; use some kind of filter or reflector).

Yeah, Eratosthenes already knew it was round.

What he did with the two sticks (and paying a guy to take a damn long walk) was measure it.

On university computers, using Netscape Navigator, browsing the information superhighway (i.e., mostly Geocities) filtered through Yahoo and, as soon as I found it, AltaVista (whose user experience was much more similar to what Google’s would be), and reading hardcore erotic stories between classes…

The World Wide Web has only gone downhill from there. It probably died around the time when the blink and marquee tags were deprecated, and we’ve been browsing it’s dessicated corpse since then, like maggots on a carcass already way too rotten to provide any nourishment.

We’re not in the mid-twentieth century. Journalism hasn’t been a thing for decades.

Because for 99% of the users it’s useless inaccessible spam.

Banning anyone who posts inaccessible shit isn’t a blanket rule, it’s mere common sense.

If it’s inaccessible it’s spam, and spam is intolerable by definition.

Their domain expired, though.

Windows 2000 wasn’t bad.

They don’t understand what federation is

They can’t use email…?

According to that statement they don’t have access to the account to renew that one either, so they’ll lose it eventually and it should be considered temporary. 🤷‍♂️

the totally not evil company Bayer

Ah, yes, the totally not evil company that (together with BASF and Hoechst, forming the cartel IG Farben) developed chlorine gas for use in world war I.

The same IG Farben which was the single largest donor to Hitler’s election campaign, and main contributor to the construction of Auschwitz, where they produced synthetic petrol and rubber for use in the war and performed all manner of human experiments, including testing their own Zyklon B gas.

The same company that decades after the war was still chaired by well known nazis, and profiting from chemicals developed at Auschwitz.

Yeah, I’m sure Monsanto is in good hands, and feels right at home there.

when they turn off old.reddit

If they do that I’ll open a reddit account just so I can leave reddit again. 😤