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·
              1 year 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·
      1 year 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.