Does this include Apple Silicon Macs? That would be a bold move.
This issue was detected when running Firefox on Linux on Apple silicon. Firefox on Mac just identifies as x64.
It’s probably not on purpose by YouTube. It’s stupid they put restrictions on some heuristics to begin with but maybe because otherwise people would think YouTube is not loading properly while it’s the software decoding on the not capable arm PC that can’t handle the resolution.
Use piped
UA sniffing again? What was it with feature detection and whatnot?
YouTube is having a lot of totally not anticompetitive “bugs” in these past couple of weeks
Seems like my Samsung TV app is being hit by stuff too, I had 5 unskippable ads and can’t seem to get stable 1080p at 60fps any more despite gigabit fibre and cat6. Meanwhile getting 4k on my YouTube app on Android on WiFi.
Go figure.
YouTube is so desperate to fight this war that they’re harming legitimate watchers meanwhile my rockpi running Android TV seems to keep running sTube just fine.
The nic on TVs tend to be awful. I can barely break 100mbps on my lg wired or wireless.
Enshittification intensifies!
Repeat after me kids. It’s not an “oversight”, or “mistake”, or “bug”, or “misunderstanding”…
IF
IT
KEEPS
HAPPENING
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.
