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YouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU appears to be a widespread browser fix (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ericswpark@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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