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A Mozilla employee recently released a Firefox addon to change the user agent to Chrome on sites the user enables it on.

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[-] sramder@lemmy.world 103 points 1 year ago

I always grab a user agent switcher right after uBlock, comes in handy… makes me feel like Hackerman ;-)

[-] admin@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago

Makes me feel like a caveman doing the about:config string change since like 8th grade.

[-] sramder@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

O.G. Status ;-)

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

wait you can still change ua with about:config? how?

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 30 points 1 year ago

I use Chameleon. My user agent changes every 30 seconds

[-] Sprokes@jlai.lu 13 points 1 year ago

Doesn't that causes issues with sites using Cloudflare anti bot protection? But maybe my add-on was sending a different one for each request. I am using User Agent Switcher. I disabled it and only enable it on YouTube.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It depends how horribly the website has misconfigured cloudflare. I can log into cloudflare's website.

Generally I prefer websites that don't use cloudflare. Its a massive security risk

[-] stom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

How is Cloudflare a massive security risk?

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 9 points 1 year ago

How are they not? They are a MITM and a company based in The US.

[-] LaSirena@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You're not wrong.

[-] sramder@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I’m like that :-) Going to have to give it a try.

I kinda want to see one of Microsoft’s websites having a javascript seizure trying to recommend you switch to Edge 😂

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