we wouldn’t be at all terribly surprised to know that the billionaire is aware of Microsoft’s patent and more than willing to take the title to court.

Patent? lol

Do you mean the time when YouTube’s UI was built using a pre-standardized version of the Shadow DOM API, and had to polyfill it in Firefox? If so, that was tech debt, not artificially slowing down page loads for Firefox on purpose. It was a tradeoff that let non-Chrome users use YouTube until they finally upgraded a year or two later.

If that’s not it, I’d love to see what you’re referring to.