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I wonder what other legacy, potentially useful features lurk behind user-agent gates. For example, you can get messages to work on the mobile version of Faceboo
by mnx 8y ago
I wonder what other legacy, potentially useful features lurk behind user-agent gates. For example, you can get messages to work on the mobile version of Facebook by switching to a very old user agent. Maybe I should just permanently switch to an IE6 user agent, I wonder how many websites would still show the popup to encourage me to get a decent browser.
- dswalter 8y agoYou can also view Facebook messages on mobile without Messenger by switching to the "Desktop Site" mode for your mobile browser.
- denzil 8y agoOr you can use https://mbasic.facebook.com/ https://mbasic.facebook.com/ where the messsenger works too.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoThere's also Facebook's own Messenger Lite app if you're worried about bloat. It does everything I need and is about 10% of the size of full-blown Messenger.
- satsuma 8y agomessenger lite doesn't annihilate your battery like the full-featured messenger does, either
- mnx 8y agoYes, but it's a pretty bad experience - it has no js, so you need to keep refreshing the page. But yeah, I've used it on occasion.
- stef25 8y agoI discovered that changing a few headers gives you full access to the private/internal API used by the mobile app of a pretty massive website. The biggest WTF is you have to send a Bearer Token but the value isn't checked. So many cool things you can discover with Charles
- gmmeyer 8y agothat is terrifying!
- egfx 8y agoInstagram has a nice one where you can take screenshot's with the camera feature via a desktop browser using the mobile user-agent.