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A Mozilla employee recently released a Firefox addon to change the user agent to Chrome on sites the user enables it on.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think you got the message backwards. What's actually happening is Firefox runs a mask to look like Google. In an alternate universe Mozilla is evil and Google is having to mask.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Ah, ok, my bad. I missed the joke :(

I really thought that the Mozilla extension was an answer to a move that Google made.