• vlad
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    7 months ago

    If I was a Firefox dev I’d start looking into building in user agent spoofing right into the browser.

    It already opens Facebook pages in a special isolated tab. They could have apple.com open in it’s own special “safari” tab. I wonder if there’s anything preventing them from doing that. I guess it could be bad because it would make their market share appear even smaller.

    • The Octonaut
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      The irony of Firerfox officially agent spoofing while everyone else uses some variant of “Mozilla” as their UAS is too much.

    • @Artyom@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      I think user agent scrambling is part of privacy.resistFingerprinting, but it’s a controversial feature and breaks a lot of webpages

      • @reddig33@lemmy.world
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        Broken webpages might be a good thing. There are too many browsers that aren’t adhering to standards. Stop coding around it and start publicly shaming these megacorps.

      • @lud@lemm.ee
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        17 months ago

        That article is great! I have it linked on my website next to the text that displays the user agent of the user.

      • vlad
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        07 months ago

        That’s was interesting to read.