Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps protect our community"

Re:Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps... by apantel on Monday June 10, 2024 @03:04PM (#40637185)

I’ve been using Firefox for maybe 15 years. It has always been great. But in the past year or so, I’m finding that more and more web experiences are buggy and slow in Firefox, which is really frustrating.

I don’t know if it’s that developers don’t do sufficient QA testing in Firefox, or the creators of Firefox have fallen behind.

Either way it doesn’t bode well. I’m being forced to reach for Chrome more and more just to get certain websites to work, especially ChatGPT. It is way buggier in Firefox than Chrome. It feels like OpenAI doesn’t have a single person doing QA testing in Firefox, and why should they? It’s a sliver of the market.

If anyone at Mozilla/Firefox is reading this, this is really bad. This is the kind of thing that signals the death of something in the not too distant future.

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Re:Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps... by dsvf on Monday June 10, 2024 @03:46PM (#40637910)

Some of this is intentional on websites from Google. Google sheets has a very very annoying bug where if you want to multiply two values in a cell formula and press the asterisk key, the cursor jumps to the left of the asterisk. You then have to manually place the cursor to the right of the asterisk (since pushing the right arrow key may instead jump to the next cell to the right), breaking any typing flow whatsoever. However, if you fake your Firefox user agent to chrome (but change nothing else), the bug disappears.

I recall reading a post here on HN that Google has been found from time to time to intentionally cripple the FF user agent, which in turn led me to "discover" the sheets bug fix.

This does not change much about what you wrote, but it's at least something to do against malicious incompatibility

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Re:Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps... by snthd on Monday June 10, 2024 @03:11PM (#40637331)

Firefox has a built in mechanism for reporting issues to https://webcompat.com

>People expect websites to work regardless of the device or browser they are using. When a site works in one browser but not another, that is most likely a web compatibility bug that we want to know about.

Issue search: https://webcompat.com/issues

https://webcompat.com/issues?q=youtube

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Re:Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps... by BeefWellington on Monday June 10, 2024 @06:50PM (#40640174)

Set your user-agent header to be a recent chrome version.

I browse the web this way and I've in total found exactly one problem on any site I've visited in the past year.

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