> So Vivaldi lets you set your own User-Agent string? How is this notable? Doesn't every modern browser let you do this in some form or another? No and no. I t

> So Vivaldi lets you set your own User-Agent string? How is this notable? Doesn't every modern browser let you do this in some form or another? No and no. I think neither Chrome nor Firefox have that feature built-in in the settings UI, and the blog post is about how Vivaldi doesn't just masquerade as Edge, but completely identifies as it when visiting bing, to get over the fence. All other sites still get the normal UA string. > This is a poor characterization, and attributes as malice what is actually just technical debt. Did Vivaldi forget that every major browser's User-Agent basically masquerades as all the others? Err what... The cluttered UA string we have today is the result of exactly that kind of practice, blocking browsers because they're not X. If companies still decide to block browsers in new products today because of their UA string, this is the opposite of technical debt.