• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    11 months ago

    this prolly wasnt a bad decision early on… why push something to a population who cant utilize it… but shit changes fast, google.

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        11 months ago

        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

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          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.

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            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.

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        Could be that the developers for the HiSense TV just copy-pasted whatever UA into their browser codebase and called it a day.