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Comment on YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems

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

That means nothing, this check could be done on the server side and noone would know

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Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I mean… We can we can invent a thousand conspiracies if we want to…

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kautau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Except that the delay and browser check is literally in the JavaScript code, you can see it.

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- AceSLS@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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
  
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  - kautau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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
    
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