YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems - eviltoast
Hector Martin (@marcan@treehouse.systems)
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Attached: 2 images Today I learned that YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux. It will give you lowered video resolutions. If you just replace "aarch64" with "x86_64" in the UA, suddenly you get 4K and everything. They literally have a test for "is ARM", and if so, they consider your system has garbage performance and cripple the available formats/codecs. I checked the code. Logic: Quality 1080 by default. If your machine has 2 or fewer cores, quality 480. If anything ARM, quality 240. Yes, Google thinks all ARM machines are 5 times worse than Intel machines, even if you have 20 cores or something. Why does this not affect Chromium? **Because chromium on aarch64 pretends to be x86_64** `Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36` 🤦‍♂️​🤦‍♂️​🤦‍♂️​🤦‍♂️​🤦‍♂️​ Welp, guess I'm shipping a user agent override for Firefox on Fedora to pretend to be x86. **EDIT**: The plot thickens. Pretending to be ChromeOS aarch64 *still gets 4K*. Specifically: `Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS aarch64 10452.96.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.181 Safari/537.36` still works.
  • muzzle@lemm.eeEnglish
    28·
    1 year ago

    Joke is on them, i only ever use NewPipe (or freetube on desktop)

    • 4lan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been trying to get ReVanced working on WSA and it force closes at start.

      Going to give newpipe a try, thanks!

        • 4lan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          yeah its installed! I even downloaded the specific version of youtube the patcher wants, IDK what I’m doing wrong

          Do I need to patch on my phone and then use that apk on the PC?

            • muzzle@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              Stop screwing around and just get newpipe or libretube. The UI is a lot simpler and they are much more stable at the moment.

    • Befernafardofo@feddit.itEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Discovering freetube was the best thing of my video browsing life. It works so well it’s incredible Feels good to not be continuously tracked while watching videos.