YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems
YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems
Fuck Google.
Searching a tracking number from Chrome using Google? Finds a package.
Same search on Google from Firefox leads to nothing.
196 3 ReplySomeone, light the EU signal!
Lawsuit intensifies in the distance
142 2 ReplyFuck Google. Ruining the internet for profit.
109 11 ReplyCan you say Anticompetition practices?
1 lawsuit, 2 lawsuit, 3 lawsuit ah ah ah
82 1 ReplyUser Agent String: A browser's way of lying about what it is, in order to not trigger some server's arcane content filtering system.
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68 1 ReplyYouTube thinks aarch64 Firefox is... a HiSense TV?!?!?!?!
Ah yes, televisions are exactly where the user wants lower resolution
67 0 ReplyThe more bullshit like this I read about YouTube the more I despite them. I already use GrayJay on mobile and I'm using ublock Origin + ublock Matrix on Librewolf to control cookie usage on desktop. So far I've been able escape the video player block by clearing cache.
I'm just waiting for the day they "force" me onto another frontend.
68 5 ReplyThey finally made YouTube unusable for me even with ublock. Refreshing the filters didn't work and told me I could only watch 3 videos.
Google was always going to win the war but I didn't expect it to be like this.
I'm now using piped for all YouTube videos.
59 3 ReplyFrom what I can understand from the thread, they aren't deliberatly crippling FF.
67 12 ReplyThat’s gonna be a lawsuit…
46 6 ReplySwitched to Freetube/Invidious. Like the sun, I'm never looking directly at Youtube.com ever again.
33 1 ReplyHmm, anti competitive practices.
34 5 ReplyJoke is on them, i only ever use NewPipe (or freetube on desktop)
28 0 ReplyIt might just be a coincidence but I've had a lot of trouble using Invidious or Piped lately too. Videos load and titles load, but video thumbnails don't load for me.
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29 8 ReplyI think they want everyone to use user agent switcher so that Firefox share will drop and then nobody will support it and will die.
18 2 ReplyDisgusting!
13 0 ReplyAsahi Linux?
They named a distro after a beer brand?
18 6 ReplyHere we go again...
7 0 ReplyStupid question, what about 2 in 1 tablets?
5 1 ReplyAnd that's why I use mpv and yt-dlp, folks.
4 2 ReplyI like how nobody actually bothered to read the thread and doesn't understand this is a bug and wasn't done on purpose.
0 0 ReplyRumble ftw!
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