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YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems
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this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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The thing is, I really don't think, Google would care about Firefox. Firefox is sitting at negligible percentages of usage share. The only real competitor to Chrome is Safari and that's because of iOS.
I guess, they might impact Safari on macOS with this, but someone would have to try this out to actually see, and ultimately, this could still just be a dumb mistake.
Having said that, Google holds a near-monopoly in both video content and web browsers. They have a special duty to not disadvantage competitors and even if this was an honest mistake, I do think, it deserves a slap on the wrist.
How much of Firefox's dwindling market share do you think was caused by Google's, Microsoft's and Apple's anticompetitive practices?
Most of it?