Some time ago, I noticed that youtube comments are copied without emojis, thought nothing of that - bugs happen - but today I finally decided to find out why and what the hell is even this.

  • @tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    17•5 months ago

    That sucks.

    I’d guess that what they were probably trying to do is make things work for random user who doesn’t have a font with said emojis installed and has no understanding of how to fix things.

    Still seems like it’d be better to only fall back to rendering images if the user doesn’t have a suitable font installed; I’m pretty sure that that’s doable.

    Might be possible to revert the change with GreaseMonkey or something like that.

    • @Lojcs@lemm.eeEnglish
      14•5 months ago

      if the user doesn’t have a suitable font installed

      Then they can just download the font. No need for images.

      I bet this is about making the emoji animated or something