495

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

all 23 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] sramder@lemmy.world 103 points 3 months 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 3 months ago

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

[-] sramder@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

O.G. Status ;-)

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 months ago

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

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 30 points 3 months ago

I use Chameleon. My user agent changes every 30 seconds

[-] Sprokes@jlai.lu 13 points 3 months 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 months ago

How is Cloudflare a massive security risk?

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 9 points 3 months ago

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

[-] LaSirena@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

You're not wrong.

[-] sramder@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months 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 😂

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago

Oh, TIL. Thank you.

[-] archchan@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 months ago

The less people spoof and the more people use Firefox + Linux, the less of a need there will be to spoof at all.

I just won't use websites that won't work with a Firefox + Linux user agent in the same way I won't use a website that blocks ublock. I'm just not going to give Chrome or Windows a stat boost, even with Librewolf where I unspoofed the UA.

With Linux usage at an all time high, I'm itching for the year of the Linux desktop.

[-] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

I totally agree with you. I'm not sure that strategy works though. All they will (still) see is 0% linux/firefox users no matter if we spoof or not. It will just be fewer users.

[-] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago
[-] dumbass@leminal.space 15 points 3 months ago

I love that I always find out about cool things via memes.

[-] lightscription@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

What do you think about sites that don't work with all variety of DNS (not even cloudflare) or proxies or tor or Firefox or Chrome or varied AP or varied devices--in short, all access combinations?

Dead link? Total Information Awareness roving tap castiron?

Can you unblock 404 Media podcasts on Signal and Identity Hacked? Tried both Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

[-] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Awesome, it works for the one website I use that doesn't like Firefox

this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2024
495 points (98.4% liked)

Firefox

17302 readers
101 users here now

A place to discuss the news and latest developments on the open-source browser Firefox

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS