His headphones kept cutting out, so he read the AliExpress code
A developer worked out why his Bluetooth headphones kept dropping his music, and the answer was on the AliExpress homepage. The Register reported the story on Monday, drawing on the developer’s own account and a follow-up from a Firefox engineer.
Connor Jones, who wrote it up for The Register, records that the site has asked Alibaba to comment.
What Matt Callaghan noticed
Callaghan uses multipoint Bluetooth headphones, paired to a PC and a phone at once. He set out what happened in a blog post on 20 August.
“Usually I listen to music on my phone but with notifications or Youtube playing through the PC, this works reliably until I open an AliExpress page in Firefox or Chrome,” he wrote.
Audio from the phone stopped shortly after the homepage loaded. Closing the tab fixed it at once. Muting the tab, the browser or Windows did nothing, and no video or...
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