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YouTube Borked When Users Enable Firefox Anti-Fingerprinting

posted by Fnord666 on Friday April 17 2020, @08:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the anti-competitive-behavior dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8192:

YouTube borked when users enable Firefox anti-fingerprinting:

Firefox users have recently started to notice that YouTube does not display videos properly when they enable the browser's anti-fingerprinting technology for better privacy.

When the privacy.resistFingerprinting privacy feature is enabled in Firefox, the feature will make the browser more resistant to fingerprinting scripts.

As fingerprinting can be used to track a user between different properties and even sites, it is a common feature suggested in Firefox privacy hardening guides.

A recent change on YouTube, though, is causing videos to have display problems when this feature is enabled.

[...] BleepingComputer has been able to reproduce this issue in both Firefox 72 and the recently released Firefox 75, so this is not an issue caused by Mozilla.

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  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Friday April 17 2020, @09:22AM (2 children)

    by looorg (578) on Friday April 17 2020, @09:22AM (#984057)

    Been shit ever since they made the change to that Polymer UI thing. I do wonder how long they'll allow the users to tweak it and disable that, the old version (or one without the polymer) is just way snappier.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2020, @10:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2020, @10:28AM (#984064)

    Too many sites already give me fits. So far, Amazon, eBay, Rock Auto, and AliExpress still work fine.

    But I also realize there are also businesses that don't care about customers using older stuff. They want the new stuff. So what if I can't use their site? They aren't in business to be like Amazon..

    They wanna be that snob no one pays much attention to. They have investors, not customers. Their marketing skills are mostly in explaining "disappointing quarters" to investors.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2020, @12:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2020, @12:08PM (#984079)

    Polymer is an open-source JavaScript library for building web applications using Web Components. The library is being developed by Google developers and contributors on GitHub. Modern design principles are implemented as a separate project using Google's Material Design design principles.

    What could possibly go wrong?