Are they determining that Forefox is Hisense TV on purpose? Again, read the linked thread for a change.
Comment on YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems
Fades@lemmy.world 11 months agoQuite 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
slimarev92@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Aux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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 11 months ago
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:
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 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 11 months ago
Have you actually checked the code? It doesn’t target Firefox at all. Man…