YouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU appears to be a widespread browser fix

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• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What the heck…? My CPU is none of their business.

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  • kbotc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Google chooses codecs based on what it guesses your hardware will decode. (iPhones get HEVC, Android gets VP9, etc) They just didn’t put much thought into arm based home devices outside of a specific few like the shield.

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    • brochard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why wouldn’t it be my browser asking for the codecs it prefers instead of the website trying to guess my computer’s hardware ?

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    • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My by now rather ancient rk3399 board can hardware-decode both at 4k 60Hz. Which has nothing to do with the fact that it’s aarch64, but that Rockchip included a beast of a VPU (it was originally designed for set-top boxes).

      How about, dunno, asking the browser what kind of media it would prefer?

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  • w2tpmf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you use any Google service, everything of yours is your business. You are their product, voluntarily.

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    • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No.

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• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  this prolly wasnt a bad decision early on... why pushing something to a population who cant utilize it... but shit changes fast, google.

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  • ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It seems somewhat damning that Google’s own browser had a workaround for this, though

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    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      was it ignorance or malicious intent?

      if it was a person, i would try and assume ignorance.. im not sure google the company deserves such respect

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  • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The weirder thing is Firefox on ARM being detected as a HiSense TV. I did a cursory search to see if HiSense ever used Firefox OS on the TV and it doesn’t seem like it. Panasonic seemed to be the only manufacturer using it.

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• MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  UA sniffing again? What was it with feature detection and so on?

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• cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Use piped

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  • ButtCheekOnAStick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They still have no app. Viewing anything on that site through your mobile browser sucks ass.

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    • youngGoku@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      NewPipe for android

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    • GottaHaveFaith@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Libretube

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    • warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Grayjay

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    • kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Piped is based on NewPipe's extractor.
      If you want an app it's available on f-droid or with sponsor block on Izzy's repo.

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thank God someone finally said something! There was probably a Lemmy user somewhere who hadn’t heard of it yet.

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  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So many pipes! youtu.be/8g2KKGgK-0w?si=CmYDo3NBZdxgaBNR

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• catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Does this include Apple Silicon Macs? That would be a bold move.

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  • labsin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This issue was detected when running Firefox on Linux on Apple silicon. Firefox on Mac just identifies as x64.

    It’s probably not on purpose by YouTube. It’s stupid they put restrictions on some heuristics to begin with but maybe because otherwise people would think YouTube is not loading properly while it’s the software decoding on the not capable arm PC that can’t handle the resolution.

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  • CriticalMiss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nope, my work Mac has 1080p\4K playback no problem.

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• biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Seems like my Samsung TV app is being hit by stuff too, I had 5 unskippable ads and can’t seem to get stable 1080p at 6fps any more despite gigabit fibre and cat6. Meanwhile getting 4k on my YouTube app on Android on WiFi.

  Go figure.

  YouTube is so desperate to fight this war that they’re harming legitimate watchers meanwhile my rockpi running Android TV seems to keep running sTube just fine.

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  • Avg@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The nic on TVs tend to be awful. I can barely break 100mbps on my lg wired or wireless.

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    • c10l@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      100mbps should be enough for a few 4K streams, and I imagine you’re not streaming more than one thing to your TV at any given time.

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• Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Enshittification intensifies!

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• atocci@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Does this apply to Windows on ARM as well, or is it just Linux specifically for some reason?

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  • Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a processor variable, not OS

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    • atocci@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That's what I figured, but every article I've seen on this calls out Linux specifically. I'll have to give it a try from my Surface Pro X when I get home and test.

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