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I hate chromium (fanaticus.social)

submitted 11 months ago by SoccerGod@fanaticus.social to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 37 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 17 points 11 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.

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

kek

[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago

That's was interesting to read.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 11 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.