A former Microsoft trainee accuses Google of intentionally changing its websites, including YouTube. The goal is to "break" competing browsers like Microsoft Edge, according to information published on the English-language website HackerNews.
According to Joshua Bakita, Google would make regular code changes in some of its sites in order to cause slow and weary users of browsers other than Google Chrome. To stay compatible with Google services, these browsers that are like Safari or Edge.P would be forced to update regularly.
Changes in YouTube's code
Joshua Bakita even estimates that Eden was superior to Chrome on YouTube, but that Google then chose to change the code to return to its competitor, rather than improve its own features.
"Although I'm not entirely sure that YouTube has been intentionally modified to slow Edge, many of my colleagues are convinced of this - and they've looked at the problem more closely," writes the former intern on HackerNews. . To improve nothing, when we asked him, YouTube refused to delete the "div" (tag in the code HTLM) empty hidden and did not give explanations ".
Google denies any intentional maneuver
For its part, Google has refuted all charges of sabotage. For the web giant, YouTube's empty "div" was a simple computer bug, which has since been fixed.
"YouTube does not add code designed to neutralize the optimizations of other browsers and acts quickly to correct the detected bug," said a spokesman for the firm in The Verge. He added: "We regularly collaborate with other browser vendors via standardization organizations, the Web Platform Tests project, the Chromium open source project ... to improve browser interoperability. "
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