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[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years 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 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 15 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 years ago

That's was interesting to read.