This is exactly as the topic title says!
YouTube, as we know quite well here, nudges and tweaks theircash cow web portal, kicking out browsers whose default user agent strings have no support at all any longer or prompt YT to notify the user that one’s browser is “too old”.
In the past, some folks have had success with setting user agents as an Opera Mini Browser on, say, vintage Nokia smartphones like the N90.
The user agent string I’ve been using to reach YT clips on Interweb is:
Opera/9.80 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/5.1.21214/28.2725; U; ru) Presto/2.8.119 Version/11.10
As we’ve lacked a clearinghouse thread like this, I’m certain I got this user agent string from another savvy PowerPC Macs/Early Intel Macs MR member, but I can’t find where or who that was (though I have a hunch it was probably @Dronecatcher ).
Whatever the case, I really like it, because it delivers search results quickly and plays video clips without a lot of the HTML5 overhead or XHR guff one deals with when using user agent strings from a more recent browser. The above, which pulls up an m.youtube.com mobile server, doesn’t present a gorgeous layout as far as page formatting, but it’s been getting the job done.
The purpose of this thread, though, is to give us a place for us to share our user agent strings which continue to work even as other ones no longer do the trick.
YouTube, as we know quite well here, nudges and tweaks their
In the past, some folks have had success with setting user agents as an Opera Mini Browser on, say, vintage Nokia smartphones like the N90.
The user agent string I’ve been using to reach YT clips on Interweb is:
Opera/9.80 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/5.1.21214/28.2725; U; ru) Presto/2.8.119 Version/11.10
As we’ve lacked a clearinghouse thread like this, I’m certain I got this user agent string from another savvy PowerPC Macs/Early Intel Macs MR member, but I can’t find where or who that was (though I have a hunch it was probably @Dronecatcher ).
Whatever the case, I really like it, because it delivers search results quickly and plays video clips without a lot of the HTML5 overhead or XHR guff one deals with when using user agent strings from a more recent browser. The above, which pulls up an m.youtube.com mobile server, doesn’t present a gorgeous layout as far as page formatting, but it’s been getting the job done.
The purpose of this thread, though, is to give us a place for us to share our user agent strings which continue to work even as other ones no longer do the trick.
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