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Re:YouTube artificially slows down video load times when usi... by thaumasiotes on Monday November 20, 2023 @07:53AM (#38347272)
Only option 1 is something that users, who are the people who decide what user-agent to send, might care about. And as you yourself point out, it doesn't happen.
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Re:YouTube artificially slows down video load times when usi... by kevincox on Monday November 20, 2023 @08:09AM (#38347436)
I'm pretty sure that users care that websites can fix bugs affecting their browser. In fact option 1 is very difficult to actually implement when you can't figure out which browser is having problems in the first place.
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Re:YouTube artificially slows down video load times when usi... by tzs on Monday November 20, 2023 @12:44PM (#38351367)
Why do you think users wouldn't care about sites diagnosing problems that are making pages fail to load (#2) or sites testing the site on the browser that the user uses (#3)?
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