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    YT on PPC: keeping YouTube running & accessible on PowerPC Macs

    YT on PPC: keeping YouTube running and accessible on PowerPC Macs First posted: 24 March 2023 Last updated: 1 April 2023 OVERVIEW It’s simple, even if the fixes have to be updated regularly by the vintage Macs and retro-computing community: a place to file together all the ways of accessing...
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    The User Agent String thread: what are you using to enable legacy function on sites like YouTube?

    This is exactly as the topic title says! YouTube, as we know quite well here, nudges and tweaks their cash 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...
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    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
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