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by kevingadd 736 days 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.
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Sohcahtoa82 735 days ago
Now 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.
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kevingadd 735 days ago
It 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.

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