Google would be slowing down youtube in competing browsers

According to some reports, Google is slowing YouTube down on rival Chrome browsers. YouTube users may have noticed that the site has become much slower in recent months, which seems due to the recent Polymer redesign, which is said to make rival Chome browsers significantly slower.

Changes made to YouTube impair its performance in non-Google browsers

Mozilla technical program manager Chris Peterson said on Twitter that the redesign can take YouTube up to five times longer to load into competing Chrome browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge. This fact is due to the Shadow DOM v0 API which is used exclusively by Chrome, giving it a distinct advantage over its competitors. This news comes a week after Google was fined € 4.34 billion by the European Commission for anti-competitive practices on its Android platform.

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Fortunately, there is the YouTube Classic extension for Firefox that forces YouTube to use its previous design, and it is possible to return to this version of YouTube in Edge and Safari thanks to a script called Tempermonkey. Unfortunately, the change to the old YouTube web design will remove features like dark mode and change various aspects of the website's modern user interface.

It is undeniable that the shifting changes have resulted in the Google browser offering a better user experience on YouTube, a website owned by Google, which encourages many to view this as an anti-competitive move by the company. Hopefully, Google will update YouTube in the near future to use Shadow DOM v1, the version of this API that is compatible with competing browsers.

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