Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Is YouTube Really Slowing Down FIREFOX??" video.

  1. Good job reporting on the real culprit here. A lot of your examples of A/B testing, though, I find pretty nefarious, as moving the description box and other UI elements at random is tantamount to gaslighting. I choose GNU/Linux¹ because I want total control over my system—I want to choose which "public betas" I participate in, and the rest I expect to "just work" in a stable, consistent and repeatable way. The ethos of "Web 2.0" and SaaS in general is all about robbing users of freedom, choice and control. Anyway, I realize ¹I'm sounding like Comrade Stallman, so I should probably go touch some grass. Happy Thanksgiving, fellow Amercians!
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  2. ​ @IbilisSLZ Well it's definitely not XP grass 😝—I still can't believe that desktop background was a real photo and not computer modeled.
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