Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoYouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU appears to be a widespread browser fixwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1532arrow-down17
arrow-up1525arrow-down1external-linkYouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU appears to be a widespread browser fixwww.tomshardware.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up93arrow-down2·edit-29 months agothis prolly wasnt a bad decision early on… why push something to a population who cant utilize it… but shit changes fast, google.
minus-squareozymandias117@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45arrow-down1·9 months agoIt seems somewhat damning that Google’s own browser had a workaround for this, though
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·9 months agowas it ignorance or malicious intent? if it was a person, i would try and assume ignorance… im not sure google the company deserves such respect
minus-squareFlaky@iusearchlinux.fyilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·9 months agoThe weirder thing is Firefox on ARM being detected as a HiSense TV. I did a cursory search to see if HiSense ever used Firefox OS on the TV and it doesn’t seem like it. Panasonic seemed to be the only manufacturer using it.
minus-squareericswpark@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-29 months agoCould be that the developers for the HiSense TV just copy-pasted whatever UA into their browser codebase and called it a day.
this prolly wasnt a bad decision early on… why push something to a population who cant utilize it… but shit changes fast, google.
It seems somewhat damning that Google’s own browser had a workaround for this, though
was it ignorance or malicious intent?
if it was a person, i would try and assume ignorance… im not sure google the company deserves such respect
The weirder thing is Firefox on ARM being detected as a HiSense TV. I did a cursory search to see if HiSense ever used Firefox OS on the TV and it doesn’t seem like it. Panasonic seemed to be the only manufacturer using it.
Could be that the developers for the HiSense TV just copy-pasted whatever UA into their browser codebase and called it a day.