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YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems (social.treehouse.systems)
submitted 11 months ago by whfsdude@dmv.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Fades@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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:

  1. Google's engineers were unable to tell that performance in Firefox is degraded by their changes.
  2. Google sees it as advantageous to disadvantage their competitors - including Firefox. And although they might not be able to do it deliberately, for legal reasons, they can still do it by introducing platform specific changes and strategically neglecting to make it work properly.
[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

Have you actually checked the code? It doesn't target Firefox at all. Man...

[–] slimarev92@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Are they determining that Forefox is Hisense TV on purpose? Again, read the linked thread for a change.