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

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 100 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 50 points 11 months ago

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

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 13 points 11 months 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

[-] villainy@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

Or it's a company so fuckoff huge that one department (Chrome on Android) couldn't get a bug report escalated in another department (YouTube). Eventually they just put in a UA workaround while the bug rots in a backlog somewhere. Common enterprise bullshit.

Or the Chrome on Android team didn't even bother reporting the issue to YouTube and just threw in a cheap workaround. Also common enterprise bullshit.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Bingo. When I was a Chrome developer working on video stuff, we mostly treated YouTube like a separate company. Getting our stuff to work with theirs was a priority, but no more than, say, Netflix. We pretty much treated them as a black box that consumed the same API we provided for everyone.

[-] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 37 points 11 months 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.

[-] ericswpark@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Could be that the developers for the HiSense TV just copy-pasted whatever UA into their browser codebase and called it a day.

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