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YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems (social.treehouse.systems)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

The issue is that some of those techniques are only useful after the client has rendered the content rather than before.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    But they are useful and completely valid ways of dealing with the problem.

    It is not the end of the world if I have to click am extra once or twice to change the language. Hell most websites have much harder processes just to reject cookies.

    Personally I would rather err on the side of slightly extra work the odd time I'm not on a website not in my native language than have an extra bit of information that can be used to track me.

    Again take a look at the Gemini protocol, its a perfectly fine browsing experience without all the cruft.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Valid, but not standard and more inconvenient.

    Additionally, you act like query strings can't be used to track you when they certainly can.

    Most of the advantages of Gemini are implemented in the client and not the protocol itself.

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