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Your computer should say what you tell it to say - so if I want to spoof my browser and OS I can do that right? Right?
Yes. And you should be able to retain that ability.
The magic words are "user-agent header in http protocol"
Also the goal is not for everyone to spoof everyone else, but the goal is to not trust any information you are given by a browser. A good developer would always find ways to bypass any limits with that so it would be useless anyway.
Yes Theres browser extensions that do this. I tried one and didn’t work but then today tried chameleon and it worked for a site I need for work that only allows chrome.
That's because they check your user agent.
This API aims to break those kinds of extensions, making it impossible to spoof a user agent or certain kind of machine.
If this comes live it won't be so easy. Many operating systems will probably not allow to turn this garbage off or spoof it. Especially android.