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The developer which added that invisible div responded: https://medium.com/@jeremy.noring/did-google-cripple-edges-youtube-performance-ce5169d3e5f4 https://medi

• thatawesomeguy 8y ago
  That's not the dev that added it, the article is from someone who has done something similar, not someone who works at Google. It doesn't confirm Google's reasoning for the div
• jamiekitson 8y ago
  That's a developer that added an invisible div.
  • JaRail 8y ago
    To clarify, that's to say it's a response by an engineer, but NOT a Google engineer who was involved with YouTube.
• nickspag 8y ago
  That is random conjecture from someone who also did that for completely different reasons on something else. Admittedly so too is the OP's post, with the added (although unsubstantiated) comment about YouTube refusing to change. As an aside- his points on why Chrome is a monoculture misses the point. Chrome is a monoculture for the same reason almost every other thing becomes at monoculture. It was, at one point, deserving of it as a product. Whether it was naturally the only one or the best. But now, they might not be the best out there. And when they go on to create barriers to competitors and lock-in, thereby making them artificially dominant, that is an anti trust case in the making, if the U.S. Justice Department had any teeth in that area.