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0 pointskevingadd1y ago0 comments

YouTube did this to Firefox too - for a while they were serving a special degraded version of YT to Firefox users (polyfilled web components, instead of native web components or their classic non-web-components version) even though they had versions that would perform better. "Oops".

If you used user-agent tricks you could get them to serve a good version.

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Sohcahtoa821y ago

Now I wonder if this is a thing that still exists, and I wonder if I should be spoofing my user-agent to Chrome just as a general rule in Firefox.

kevingaddOP1y ago

It was fixed years ago, though it's possible they still do similar things in other scenarios.

UA spoofing in firefox will get you blocked by recaptcha and cloudflare.

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Sohcahtoa821y ago

Now I wonder if this is a thing that still exists, and I wonder if I should be spoofing my user-agent to Chrome just as a general rule in Firefox.

kevingaddOP1y ago

It was fixed years ago, though it's possible they still do similar things in other scenarios.

UA spoofing in firefox will get you blocked by recaptcha and cloudflare.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse