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[-] schwim@reddthat.com 17 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry but I don't see how that check is browser-specific. Is that part happening on the browser side?

[-] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

They don't need to put incriminating "if Firefox" statements in their code -- the initial page request would have included the user agent and it would be trivial to serve different JavaScript based on what it said.

[-] phx@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago

Easy enough to test though. Load the page with a UA changer and see if it still shows up when Firefox pretends to be Chrome

[-] TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The video in the linked article does just that. The page takes 5 seconds to load the video, the user changes the UA, they refresh the page and suddenly the video loads instantly. I would have liked to see them change the UA back to Firefox to prove it's not some weird caching issue though

[-] phx@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and also Edge or an older version of Chrome etc just to be sure.

[-] nixcamic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I guess his question is "is that happening?"

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