Comment on YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems
kautau@lemmy.world 1 year agoExcept that the delay and browser check is literally in the JavaScript code, you can see it.
Comment on YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems
kautau@lemmy.world 1 year agoExcept that the delay and browser check is literally in the JavaScript code, you can see it.
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
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