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[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’ve been noticing a lot of ‘interesting’ behavior with data-hungry websites when I use more privacy-focused measures lately.

Gmail logs me out of Safari at least weekly now for no apparent reason, other than to inconvenience me.
Gmail also refuses to deliver any emails forwarded through hide my email. They simply do not arrive, not even to spam. I had to start using another email service for hide my email. (Additionally, every email I get from Apple gets tagged with a phishing warning, which is just petty and funny.)
Facebook sends an email every time I log in (once or twice a month) to tell me that Firefox is suspicious because I use ad-blockers and private windows.

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[–] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What if we are already using YouTube premium and have ublock on FF. Would user agent spoof still be needed??

How annoying.

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[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No wonder why YouTube got weird for me

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[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In addition to the fact that I remember this happening several years ago, I'm pretty sure this has been an issue for a while. When I decided to exclusively use Firefox about a year ago, YouTube as a whole would load slowly and it still does.

And I hate the fact that Google knows that they will benefit from this because, unfortunately, a majority of YouTube users are sheeple.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any extensions you'd recommend for having Firefox spoof chrome?

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[–] llama@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The YouTube viewing experience on FF is terrible. I have premium no ads and still manage to break the interface occasionally by clicking a new video or seeking the video playing.

[–] blahsay@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Firefox is great for YouTube. Don't support google via premium - those guys aren't exactly short of a dime. Addblockers are flawless.

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Does not happen for me Safari or Firefox.

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[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Once upon a time, Google wanted to kill the user-agent.

[–] northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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