YouTube is crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux
YouTube is crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux
Attached: 2 images Today I learned that YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux. It will give you lowered video resolutions. If you just replace "aarch64" with "x86_64" in the UA, suddenly you get 4K and everything. They literally have a test for "is ARM", and if so, they consider...
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
As the Hacker News comments say, this seems like a sensible default: when faced with an ARM processor running Linux but not Android, it's probably a Raspberry Pi. That there's a few users running Linux on Apple Silicon is more likely something they did not think of or too small a group to care about rather than intently degrading their experience.
(I only skimmed so please correct me where I'm wrong, just didn't want to leave this headline on Lemmy with no comments)
You seem to be right there, but Hector did update the post after finding out that Firefox on ARM was being detected as a specific HiSense TV on the server side even with the UA being faked.