I wonder how this made it past testing?
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#12Funny that it works when switching to desktop mode.
I never actually looked at what this does.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
They probably did. However wanted to screw Firefox users the same way as the YouTube slowdown.
Seems unlikely they'd want to sabotage Firefox. Google is Firefox' primary source of income, and Firefox is strategically crucial token competition that stands between Google and an antitrust lawsuit of the sort Microsoft faced in the early 2000s (where Microsoft were basically a technicality away from being broken up).
Some middle manager out there was making this decision. Not strategy heads
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#14I wonder how this made it past testing?
They test on version 64 ;)
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#169 minutes ago: > Since this has now been posted to HN, I'll be locking this thread. This bugtracker is a work place, not a discussion forum. We have a bad fame.
Our bad reputation is not entirely undeserved, some of us are not as well behaved as others.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
They probably did. However wanted to screw Firefox users the same way as the YouTube slowdown.
Seems unlikely they'd want to sabotage Firefox. Google is Firefox' primary source of income, and Firefox is strategically crucial token competition that stands between Google and an antitrust lawsuit of the sort Microsoft faced in the early 2000s (where Microsoft were basically a technicality away from being broken up).
They want two things: 1) Firefox needs to exists as a hypothetical option 2) People shouldn't really use Firefox. Intermittent oopsies breaking key services are doing wonders towards goal #2
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#18https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/131916#issuecom... This is entirely server-side UA sniffing going wrong. You get an empty HTML doc, only a doctype, with a Firefox Android UA. You can reproduce this with curl and it seems that this affects all UA strings with versions >= 65. <=64 work.
It's interesting if you remove "Android" from the UA, then it sends more, but remove "Mobile" it still sends only the "doctype", and removing "Firefox" fixes it entirely.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
They probably did. However wanted to screw Firefox users the same way as the YouTube slowdown.
Similar to the google image search on Firefox mobile, which has been broken for how many years now?
Well image search is broken in general.
Reverse search is now completely useless for example.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
They probably did. However wanted to screw Firefox users the same way as the YouTube slowdown.
Seems unlikely they'd want to sabotage Firefox. Google is Firefox' primary source of income, and Firefox is strategically crucial token competition that stands between Google and an antitrust lawsuit of the sort Microsoft faced in the early 2000s (where Microsoft were basically a technicality away from being broken up).
Google is currently facing an antitrust suit where their payment to Firefox is a crucial part of the evidence against them. And it's over their search engine, which is far more important to them than Chrome.
They pay Firefox as they're buying a valuable product. Which is why they also pay Safari.