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YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems
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this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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It's probably the case that this was good intent given the lack of desktop ARM computing hardware, but they really should let the client decide the video quality.
True, but I would guess that the clients didn't handle that well and this was just a stupid quick fix.