alt Hacker NewsA Ruffle anecdote: I know websites ship Ruffle, but I've also had the Firefox extension installed for some old sites that do not. I recently had to disable it because it made Twitch claim that my browser is too old to use their website. I'm assuming they check for Flash support, and somehow that trumps everything else they use to identify the browser version. Pretty pathetic, honestly.
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Amazing. Literally the opposite of what you're supposed to do, which is detect individual feature support and upgrade the experience when possible, while gracefully degrading as much as possible when features aren't present.
Twitch is a big category in the enshittification category. They're endlessly user hostile. I want to force management to use their own products
The money people probably just told them "more ads. I don't care how you do it - more ads"
Also pretty funny if true