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The author makes a massive leap of faith between "I downloaded the pages with Chrome and Firefox user agents, and there was differences" and "can't understand t
by grrowl 13y ago
The author makes a massive leap of faith between "I downloaded the pages with Chrome and Firefox user agents, and there was differences" and "can't understand the differences, therefore there's obviously malicious intent".
Cross-browser development, especially for cutting-edge, novel features on a massive codebase is hard. Not insurmountably, but it doesn't allow one to automatically attribute it to malice.
- Bahamut 13y agoThat was my first thought as well - the author makes an extremely poor leap in logic.
- noselasd 13y agoIndeed. With this claim, you really need to figure out why and what. It's http and text, so figuring out what triggers the different behavior is feasible and needs to be done before throwing out allegations.
- wreegab 13y agoYes, he lost me completely there. I was expecting he would at least provide his data (the diff'ed portion) so more knowledgeable people could pitch in. Instead I got no data and a sweeping conclusion.
- fivre 13y agohttps://www.dropbox.com/s/r7ghhhq1ys3l5am/firefox_youtube.tar.gz https://www.dropbox.com/s/r7ghhhq1ys3l5am/firefox_youtube.ta... for what it's worth, several different copies of the same video across different browsers/browsers pretending to be other browsers