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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11 months ago

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.

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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.

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