> To provide some clarity on this, it likely isn't targeting specifically non-Chrome browsers It's not targeting non-chrome browsers, it's just a before penalt

> To provide some clarity on this, it likely isn't targeting specifically non-Chrome browsers It's not targeting non-chrome browsers, it's just a before penalty that only applies to ... non-chrome browsers? > Secondarily, YouTube has no financial incentive to actively punish non-chrome useragents. They make money in their division by serving ads, regardless of the useragent. With Google's ongoing desire to break ad-blockers in Chrome, and make tracking a mandatory web specification via essentially monopoly browser status[1], Google has a _very_ strong financial incentive to punish non-chrome UAs - anything that pushes people to Chrome over browsers that they don't control is a win for them. [1] let's be real: the only reason many sites work in browsers other than chrome is iOS safari, that's it