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YouTube did this to Firefox too - for a while they were serving a special degraded version of YT to Firefox users (polyfilled web components, instead of native
by kevingadd 2y ago
YouTube did this to Firefox too - for a while they were serving a special degraded version of YT to Firefox users (polyfilled web components, instead of native web components or their classic non-web-components version) even though they had versions that would perform better. "Oops".
If you used user-agent tricks you could get them to serve a good version.
- Sohcahtoa82 2y agoNow I wonder if this is a thing that still exists, and I wonder if I should be spoofing my user-agent to Chrome just as a general rule in Firefox.
- kevingadd 2y agoIt was fixed years ago, though it's possible they still do similar things in other scenarios. UA spoofing in firefox will get you blocked by recaptcha and cloudflare.