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YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems (social.treehouse.systems)
submitted 9 months ago by whfsdude@dmv.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Sprokes@jlai.lu 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Easy: use a user agent switcher that uses blacklists. Mine only spoofs chrome for youtube.com.

[–] Zeroc00l@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, will definitely check out this unnamed extension.

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Here'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"
 }
[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

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.