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Does anyone suffer from degrading image/video quality on some websites while using Firefox Android? I have this issue with Facebook. I don't want the Facebook a

by sirfz 7y ago

Does anyone suffer from degrading image/video quality on some websites while using Firefox Android? I have this issue with Facebook. I don't want the Facebook app installed on my phone (mostly to block notifications and for privacy reasons) so I access FB via Firefox but images look terrible and every video I click opens in a separate tab instead of in-page (at least I can download it tho). Only solution I have is using user-agent switcher to change my UA to either Chrome or Firefox for iOS (which is what I picked to keep Firefox in my UA) but this breaks other stuff on some websites. Question is, how to get Facebook and other sites to stop serving shit quality to Firefox users? How is this fair?

jddj 7y ago
One option is to attempt (despite of all of the obstacles they might put in place..) to increase Firefox's market share, perhaps by spreading the word about privacy concerns and/or ux benefits. Another might be adblocker-esque trusted and shared community-maintained lists along with an add-on (does this exist?) for per-domain user agent mocking. Hopefully with enough adoption (i.e integrated into ublock) that it reduces the value proposition of investing the time. Thirdly, continuing to call out the companies who do this sort of thing.
- sirfz 7y ago
  But why would market share matter if the browser is more than capable of handling whatever content a site serves. I don't see this relevant to the issue. I think the fact that Firefox doesn't announce the device's model in its UA could be a factor so some sites fall back to their lower quality version by default but it sucks that we can't force the higher quality version.
  - jddj 7y ago
    Alienating users for using adblocker-capable software might be a more difficult sell as the group gets larger.

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Does anyone suffer from degrading image/video quality on some websites while using Firefox Android? I have this issue with Facebook. I don't want the Facebook a

by sirfz 7y ago

jddj 7y ago
One option is to attempt (despite of all of the obstacles they might put in place..) to increase Firefox's market share, perhaps by spreading the word about privacy concerns and/or ux benefits. Another might be adblocker-esque trusted and shared community-maintained lists along with an add-on (does this exist?) for per-domain user agent mocking. Hopefully with enough adoption (i.e integrated into ublock) that it reduces the value proposition of investing the time. Thirdly, continuing to call out the companies who do this sort of thing.
- sirfz 7y ago
  But why would market share matter if the browser is more than capable of handling whatever content a site serves. I don't see this relevant to the issue. I think the fact that Firefox doesn't announce the device's model in its UA could be a factor so some sites fall back to their lower quality version by default but it sucks that we can't force the higher quality version.
  - jddj 7y ago
    Alienating users for using adblocker-capable software might be a more difficult sell as the group gets larger.