• /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Some of you need to stop spoofing browsing agents. We need to show people that Firefox is used. This telemetry can help Firefox support and become a big competitor to Chrome and other Chromium based browsers.

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      1 year ago

      Do you think the number of people spoofing user agents are going to even dent those numbers?

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Iirc there’s a “per site” spoofer that people could use instead, for those sites that require specific browsers. I don’t actually know what it’s called, and my cursory Google search didn’t bring up much of anything, but I do believe I’ve seen them before.

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        The FF extension is just called “User-Agent Switcher” I believe?

        And yes, you can set it blacklist mode or whitelist mode (in other words, “use the extension on every domain but:” vs. “Only use the extension with these domains:”).

        I’ll only switch away from FF if a site is completely broken. I’ll try it before resorting to chromium

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        1 year ago

        Some sites that don’t work on FF will work if the site thinks you’re using a Chromium-based browser.

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          Huh. I can’t remember the last time a site didn’t work in firefox, but worked with a chromium-based browser.