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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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Quite a reductive statement based on a very small obscured window into what Google is doing with user agent profiling but go off I guess since you’re so sure
It's not. First of all, the code doesn't check for Firefox at all. Second, it blocks 4K for all Android devices. Conclusions people came up with here just show utter ignorance.
Google has teams of highly paid expert engineers who's entire job is to maintain and develop youTube. What do you think is more likely:
I mean, Google's engineers also recently lost six months worth of a lot of people's Google Drive files, so, honestly, anything's possible.
Have you actually checked the code? It doesn't target Firefox at all. Man...
Are they determining that Forefox is Hisense TV on purpose? Again, read the linked thread for a change.