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wow just wow while i can't say i didn't see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone

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[–] iso@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Haven't seen that one on ublock origin + Firefox

[–] MushyMelon47@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same, I've seen posts saying it only affects people who use chrome

[–] CompassInspector@invariant-marxism.red 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Soon: "Sorry, only chrome is allowed. Please download chrome to access youtube"

[–] ralC@lemmy.fmhy.ml 22 points 2 years ago

It's more like google's style to release a brand new non-standard, insanely difficult to implement "standard" for "the web" which is "vital" for youtube to work. So then your browser is "not supported".

[–] talkingcat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

That's when you fake the user-agent :)

[–] bleeu@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

At this point who knows