Comment on YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems
Engywuck@lemm.ee 11 months agoIt looks like also this was against adblocker so, again, not specifically Firefox. Quote from the article itself
The issue was initially reported as targeting Firefox users, but users online have said they’re seeing the delay in Chrome and Edge, too. Reddit and Hacker News users who’ve examined the code that appears to be causing the delay have said they see no indication that YouTube checks what kind of browser is in use. Mozilla’s senior brand manager Damiano DeMonte wrote in an email to The Verge that “there’s no evidence that this is a Firefox-specific issue.
AceSLS@ani.social 11 months ago
That means nothing, this check could be done on the server side and noone would know
Engywuck@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I mean… We can we can invent a thousand conspiracies if we want to…
kautau@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Except that the delay and browser check is literally in the JavaScript code, you can see it.
AceSLS@ani.social 11 months ago
Indeed, but google can just transmit different javascript to different users/browsers/regions etc. It can be decided by a whim and noone would know except some coders at google
kautau@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Except everyone would know. Multiple people across the globe testing different browsers have looked a at the same JavaScript code that is being sent to the browser. The check is there, client-side, google isn’t sending a different JavaScript payload for different browsers. Like you said, they could, but that’s not how it currently functions