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I don’t think that’s Orion specific, I have the exact same issue with Safari and Firefox

I'll pitch in that since youtube was bought by Google it's become pretty anticompetitive too. They've absolutely been caught degrading their product on all browsers except chrome. I've witnessed this numerous times on Firefox on my android. Videos refusing to play, subtitles appearing off the screen, refusing to fullscreen, and at least 3 more annoying things i can't remember anymore.

On numerous occasions, I had issues with YouTube and Firefox that were fixed by changing the user agent to make it look like chrome.

I stopped using YouTube 10+ years ago, so no clue if it still the case.

This is incompetence, not malice. YT devs would skip testing on Chrome if they could get away with it, but are forced to.

Incompetence at scale is malice. We're talking about a mega-corporation gobbling up some of the brightest minds of our generation, not some garage startup that is barely able to keep the lights on.

I'll agree with some of the brightest minds, but some Googlers I worked with were mediocre at best.

Also, I don't really understand what your catchy phrase means. Google's management is being malicious by not forcing their employees to not be lazy?

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