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		Someone1234 on May 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Now Forces Edge Preview Users to Use Chrome... Everyone still uses browser detection. There's no other way to determine a specific rendering engine, feature detection solves a whole different set of problems, it doesn't solve for rendering quirks. In this case the browser is unknown, so they use the most compatible version of the page.

michaelt on May 28, 2019 [–]

If by "the most compatible version of the page" you mean they deny access, you have an unusually generous definition of compatibility :)

Someone1234 on May 28, 2019 | [–]

It doesn't deny access. I just tested it, it just gives you a version of YT with fewer features and a dated UI.

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