this prolly wasnt a bad decision early on... why push something to a population who cant utilize it... but shit changes fast, google.
this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2023
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It seems somewhat damning that Google’s own browser had a workaround for this, though
was it ignorance or malicious intent?
if it was a person, i would try and assume ignorance.. im not sure google the company deserves such respect
Or it's a company so fuckoff huge that one department (Chrome on Android) couldn't get a bug report escalated in another department (YouTube). Eventually they just put in a UA workaround while the bug rots in a backlog somewhere. Common enterprise bullshit.
Or the Chrome on Android team didn't even bother reporting the issue to YouTube and just threw in a cheap workaround. Also common enterprise bullshit.
Bingo. When I was a Chrome developer working on video stuff, we mostly treated YouTube like a separate company. Getting our stuff to work with theirs was a priority, but no more than, say, Netflix. We pretty much treated them as a black box that consumed the same API we provided for everyone.
The weirder thing is Firefox on ARM being detected as a HiSense TV. I did a cursory search to see if HiSense ever used Firefox OS on the TV and it doesn't seem like it. Panasonic seemed to be the only manufacturer using it.
YouTube is having a lot of totally not anticompetitive "bugs" in these past couple of weeks
UA sniffing again? What was it with feature detection and whatnot?
Seems like my Samsung TV app is being hit by stuff too, I had 5 unskippable ads and can't seem to get stable 1080p at 60fps any more despite gigabit fibre and cat6. Meanwhile getting 4k on my YouTube app on Android on WiFi.
Go figure.
YouTube is so desperate to fight this war that they're harming legitimate watchers meanwhile my rockpi running Android TV seems to keep running sTube just fine.
The nic on TVs tend to be awful. I can barely break 100mbps on my lg wired or wireless.
100mbps should be enough for a few 4K streams, and I imagine you’re not streaming more than one thing to your TV at any given time.
4k yes, 4k hdr is where it becomes limiting...from what I've read.
Perhaps, and I’ll readily admit my ignorance on this.
That said, I doubt the HDR overhead would be any larger than the equivalent baseline SDR content.
If my intuition is right, depending on other factors like compression you could still fit at least 2 streams on that bandwidth.
Repeat after me kids. It's not an "oversight", or "mistake", or "bug", or "misunderstanding"...
IF
IT
KEEPS
HAPPENING
Enshittification intensifies!
What the heck...? My CPU is none of their business.
If you use any Google service, everything of yours is their business. You are their product, voluntarily.
No.
By using their services, you pretty much agree.
Sounds like a raspberry thing