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> banners that say "our website does not work with your browser, please switch to Chrome" Which in practice means "switch to using a Firefox extension which fa
by kazinator 2mo ago
> banners that say "our website does not work with your browser, please switch to Chrome"
Which in practice means "switch to using a Firefox extension which fakes looking like Chrome, and just to selected shitty sites like ours".
- HappMacDonald 2mo agoWhich in practice would only be executed by the same crowd of people who would have opted-in to the security features on the first pass.
- OtomotO 2mo agoWhich in turn should be built into the browser and done automatically
- drabbiticus 2mo agoI don't think Firefox should automatically spoof a Chrome user agent.
- tux3 2mo agoThere's a long tradition of browsers doing exactly that. The Chrome user agent starts with Mozilla/5.0, ends with Safari, claims to be like Gecko, based on KHTML, and somewhere in there is the string Chrome. That was done exactly because people were trying to gate which browsers could or couldn't see their page by name, instead of by missing functionality.
- OtomotO 2mo agoIf a site doesn't work, I disagree. It should. The web is becoming a monopoly anyway... a contradiction to what web once meant.
- kazinator 2mo agoIt would be executed by anyone who experiences a problem using a site with Firefox and asks for help about it in a forum, or chat AI, or finds a YT video about it, etc. Non-technical people do follow recommendations like installing an extension to help with a problem. Especially if they see the same recommendation from multiple sources, and testimonials as to its efficacy.
- scheme271 2mo agoIn practice, it'd probably look like switching to chrome for the majority of users. A lot of tech saavy users would install a plugin but that's a lot of friction especially for random sites or even for an important site. Using chrome or edge would be easier for most users.