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[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

That's was interesting to read.