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Illegal to do…what? Not offer high-res videos? To have any delay before streaming videos? To refuse to serve you videos, even if doing so caused them to lose money? How would you enforce that on Google, much less on smaller startups? Would it apply to PeerTube instances?

Google sucks for doing this. It’ll drive people to competitors–hopefully even federated competitors. But laws to ‘fix’ the problem would be nearly impossible to craft–and would be counterproductive in the long term, because they’d cement the status quo. Let Google suck, so that people switch away from it.

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Discriminate against browsers.

And I did write that it would be too hard to enforce. I’m a software developer so I understand that it’s more complicated than it sounds.

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I think they claimed they’re not discriminating against browsers, they’re just better at identifying adblockers on Firefox or something.

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