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> It's laughably adorable to think it's actually solving a problem or helping in any way, the 'bad actors' it's trying to prevent probably have a work around an

by vageli 7y ago

> It's laughably adorable to think it's actually solving a problem or helping in any way, the 'bad actors' it's trying to prevent probably have a work around anyway. They do—changing your user agent is trivial.

sp332 7y ago
Why would I want to send an incorrect user agent? There's no point having one if it's just going to lie anyway.
- JohnFen 7y ago
  I agree. I wish browsers would just stop sending a user agent string entirely. I don't think that I've sent an honest one in over a decade.
  - sp332 7y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22044057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22044057