whfsdude@dmv.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoYouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systemssocial.treehouse.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square207fedilinkarrow-up11.23Karrow-down143cross-posted to: hackernews@derp.foo
arrow-up11.19Karrow-down1external-linkYouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systemssocial.treehouse.systemswhfsdude@dmv.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square207fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@derp.foo
minus-squareSprokeslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down2·1 year agoI think they want everyone to use user agent switcher so that Firefox share will drop and then nobody will support it and will die.
minus-squareoatscoop@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoEasy: use a user agent switcher that uses blacklists. Mine only spoofs chrome for youtube.com.
minus-squareZeroc00l@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoThanks, will definitely check out this unnamed extension.
minus-squareoatscoop@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-21 year agoHere’s one, though several others offer the same functionality. Custom mode: { "www.youtube.com": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" }
minus-squareRickyRigatoni@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoYeah 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.
I think they want everyone to use user agent switcher so that Firefox share will drop and then nobody will support it and will die.
Easy: use a user agent switcher that uses blacklists. Mine only spoofs chrome for youtube.com.
Thanks, will definitely check out this unnamed extension.
Here’s one, though several others offer the same functionality.
Custom mode:
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.