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Firefox is on the brink of being dropped by the US Government (www.brycewray.com)
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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 66 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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.

[–] burliman@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago

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

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I say we just set our UAs to "Firefox", plain and simple. None of that "Chrome KHTML like Gecko" shit.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Typical Firefox UA: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/120.0

Chrome: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

See browsers started calling themselves "Mozilla" to say "Hey I can do what Firefox can!" (or back then still navigator, doesn't matter. So then sites started checking for "Gecko" (which is Mozilla's browser engine), and browsers (in this case Konqueror, I think) started adding "Hey, I'm like Gecko" to it. Then... it just goes on and on.

The only things not Mozilla in that Firefox UA are X11, Linux, and x86_64. It never stepped so low as to call itself "Mozilla (like Mosaic)".

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years 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.

[–] Vitaly@feddit.uk 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I only use fake user agent for snapchat, because they block firefox lol

[–] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Solution: fuck snapshit.

[–] Faresh@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Why are people spoofing their browser agent?