Comment on YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems

Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• maynarkh@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  User Agents should be optional. The whole idea of the Internet was that the server should respond the same way to the same request regardless of the client’s qualities.

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  • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are qualities that are useful for having different responses, like supported language, whether the browser accepts gzipped content, etc.

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    • spiderplant@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fuck that shit.

      • You can do language codes in the URL to serve different versions of content
      • If your browser can do TLS then it should be able to handle gzip content or alternatively if the internet didn’t allow cookies and scripting in your browser then it would have been safe to use TLSs built in compression

      Check out the Gemini protocol if you want to see that a lot of HTTP spec stuff is completely unnecessary

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      • xcjs@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The issue is that some of those techniques are only useful after the client has rendered the content rather than before.

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      • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So if I type in “google.com” what language should the front page be in?

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    • theterrasque@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s in separate headers

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  • spez_@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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