YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems

Edit 2: Well, at least I know I'm right. Downvote away.

Sorry, I'm all for net neutrality, but behavior based on browser usage, while dickish, has nothing to do with it.

Edit: it seems like I'm being schooled. Got any sources to back up your downvotes?

Edit 3: nope. I'm not being schooled. The downvoters should either get better informed or stop downvoting with their emotions.

I tried duckduckgo for a while and kept coming back to Google for "real" searches at work. It's not as good for searching in my experience. Yet.

I really want to ditch Google, but DuckDuckGo aint there my brother.

It may work for some simpler/lazy searches, but for real stuff, nah.

The "good" thing is that Google search is going the way of Amazon, so with Google shooting themselves in the foot and DDG catching up a bit, maybe soon they'll level

ddg always drops one of at least two troublesome terms. Which is infuriating.

Might have to do with my settings, in which case it is a bug.

Bangs are gold (which is why ddg is my default) but i still sometimes miss exclusions.

Isn't ducksuckgo just paying for google search with a privacy wrapper/obfuscation layer on top?

I've switched most defualts over to DDG but Google is still better for some things. Feels sort of like the late 99s/early 00s with Altavista, Ask Jeeves, etc.

That needs to happen more with Alphabet than Google but either would be great.

nationalize these fucks

Idk I’ll just find some millionaire/billionaire who’s hungry for public approval in the space and bug them about it probably

How much of Firefox's dwindling market share do you think was caused by Google's, Microsoft's and Apple's anticompetitive practices?

Google has a history of this sort of "whoops, we got caught, uhhh... That was just a bug!" behavior.

I'd love they gave up on me too...

There are other alternatives too, like invidious. The yewtu.be instance works decently well for me but limits to 720p I think. There is a list of all running instances somewhere on the github iirc. There's other instances that allow full HD, just have a search and you should be able to find one.

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

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Nope, I still got it after a while

It sort of does for me. I used ublock to block the popup and the overlay that prevents you from using the site. Sometimes a video will stop playing for a moment, but it resumes as soon as I hit play.

Even after clearing the cache from the ublock filter settings?

The way I read it is Chrome gets a pass on the architecture crippling, the others don't.

Someone correct me if I got the wrong idea.

It looks like also this was against adblocker so, again, not specifically Firefox. Quote from the article itself:

The issue was initially reported as targeting Firefox users, but users online have said they’re seeing the delay in Chrome and Edge, too. Reddit and Hacker News users who’ve examined the code that appears to be causing the delay have said they see no indication that YouTube checks what kind of browser is in use. Mozilla’s senior brand manager Damiano DeMonte wrote in an email to The Verge that “there’s no evidence that this is a Firefox-specific issue.

Which turned out to also have nothing to do with FF but is targeting adblockers.

Out of curiosity, what would you consider "real" premium YouTube to be? Are you thinking something where the creators get a higher share of the revenue in return for better production values?

I wanted to get premium and while i was considering it they had 2 price increases.

No thank you, bye.

I am of the mindset: i want value out of my money, subscriptions that let you own nothing immediately falls out of my requirements so i need it to be a price i'm willing to pay. Which is a low price.

I cancelled spotify the moment they added €1 to the cost, all it gave me was a play button and a bunch of bullshit i don't care for like a year in review. Dude, i was there...listening to that music, i already know what i played so i don't need you to tell me.

But that's just me and i'm the odd one out it seems.

I compare spotify like this; i bought a cd from the discount bin for €5 and got to play that for a whole life and i'd be happy if it was all i had. Spotify opens up do much music to you which is really cool BUT i used to buy a single album a year and copy that to a new cd/mp3 player to add it to the previous boughr cd's. So my cost went from €5/€20 a year to €11 a month while i own nothing. In my head that's automatically a waste of €112 euro's that are spent with no real returning value.

The biggest value most subscription services offer is: they'll stop literally pestering you with ads.

Yes.

How is Youtube a walled garden? It's a website.

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.

Are they determining that Forefox is Hisense TV on purpose? Again, read the linked thread for a change.

Did YouTube make all of those videos? If not, then how much should YouTube get from hosting them? This whole argument that people just want free shit isn't just wrong, it's also annoying. People have proven time and again that we're willing to pay for quality and convenience. And not in that order. Once again it's an issue about access, how they're fighting tooth and nail to gatekeep that access to continue to control the flow of capital so they can also play the kingmakers in digital media. Messages like yours are so off base that it's hard to believe you're not projecting your own shitty world view, but also somehow think that because you'll gargle some shitty ads every once in a while that you have some moral high ground. AKA; one of those people who believe they're right and that's all that matters and you don't actually have to think any deeper. PS: I hope I'm wrong. Please feel free to correct my own world view if I am.

There was a problem with DASH. Now it's fixed, it should work with the proxy enabled.

I have also had piles of trouble. I don't get how so many people apparently have none

Have you tried installing the MicroG package?

... They named Macs after a beer brand?

That was fascinating. Thank you for sharing 💖

Thanks, will definitely check out this unnamed extension.

Yeah I used a user agent switcher that didn't seem to have a blacklist feature that I could find and it broke every cloudfare site.