• Fester@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

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

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        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.

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          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

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

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        They have control of Chrome, so they could always implement some kind of API into Chrome to check.

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                Sure, but most people will still use Google Chrome, and good luck getting Microsoft and Opera to switch to the fork. Google will still have full control over Chrome, and the layperson won’t understand why a browser that looks the same as Chrome but doesn’t work with Google’s sites is better.

                That’s the issue.

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