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It indicates that someone at Hotmail was using User-Agent sniffing to determine when to suggest browser upgrades. Which is a fundamentally stupid thing to do.
by olefoo 18y ago
It indicates that someone at Hotmail was using User-Agent sniffing to determine when to suggest browser upgrades.
Which is a fundamentally stupid thing to do.
- blasdel 18y agoChanging the User-Agent string, pointlessly removing identifying markers, that's not "fundamentally stupid"?
- olefoo 18y agoYou do know that most browsers let you change the User-Agent string to whatever you like? This won't keep out IceWeasel users who actually understand the machine they are operating. And motivations that you don't understand are not necessarily stupid. If you don't understand why it was important enough to the debian core team to bother with the effort of maintaining a forked version version of the browser; you are not able to comment intelligently on the topic.
- jwilliams 18y ago> Which is a fundamentally stupid thing to do. Well recommending an upgrade isn't too bad... preventing users from accessing the site is just ludicrous.