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[–] AProfessional 114 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don’t care about Firefox. Chrome is the browser market, they have weakened extensions, they implemented DRM, and here we are.

[–] [email protected] 144 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Coming to you later… “Your browser violates YouTube’s Terms of Service.”

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This would become an Anti trust suit I would imagine.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They can just phrase it a little differently and argue semantics in front of a bunch of 70 year olds who don't know what a browser is in a hearing or two. Maybe a couple campaign contributions through completely legal channels and that's that. Anti trust enforcement has been falling in the US for decades.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am cautiously optimistic of that new gal heading the FTC, she's preparing suits I to Amazon and Google, so we'll see how that goes

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could use an extension that changes your user agent but I'm not sure how well that'd work

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Laughs in useragent switch

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They're TRYING, but for now, it would be a user agent extension matter.