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Comment on YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems

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.

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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:

Google’s engineers were unable to tell that performance in Firefox is degraded by their changes.

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.
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- 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.
  
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- Aux@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Have you actually checked the code? It doesn’t target Firefox at all. Man…
  
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