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minus-square/home/pineapplelover@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoSome 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.
minus-squareburliman@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoDo you think the number of people spoofing user agents are going to even dent those numbers?
minus-squareVitaly@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoI only use fake user agent for snapchat, because they block firefox lol
minus-squarederpgon@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoI say we just set our UAs to “Firefox”, plain and simple. None of that “Chrome KHTML like Gecko” shit.
minus-squareFaresh@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoWhy are people spoofing their browser agent?
minus-squareprole@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoSome sites that don’t work on FF will work if the site thinks you’re using a Chromium-based browser.
minus-squareFaresh@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoHuh. I can’t remember the last time a site didn’t work in firefox, but worked with a chromium-based browser.
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.
Do you think the number of people spoofing user agents are going to even dent those numbers?
I only use fake user agent for snapchat, because they block firefox lol
Solution: fuck snapshit.
I say we just set our UAs to “Firefox”, plain and simple. None of that “Chrome KHTML like Gecko” shit.
Why are people spoofing their browser agent?
Some sites that don’t work on FF will work if the site thinks you’re using a Chromium-based browser.
Huh. I can’t remember the last time a site didn’t work in firefox, but worked with a chromium-based browser.