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submitted 4 months ago by TheTwelveYearOld to c/[email protected]

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A Mozilla employee recently released a Firefox addon to change the user agent to Chrome on sites the user enables it on.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The less people spoof and the more people use Firefox + Linux, the less of a need there will be to spoof at all.

I just won't use websites that won't work with a Firefox + Linux user agent in the same way I won't use a website that blocks ublock. I'm just not going to give Chrome or Windows a stat boost, even with Librewolf where I unspoofed the UA.

With Linux usage at an all time high, I'm itching for the year of the Linux desktop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I totally agree with you. I'm not sure that strategy works though. All they will (still) see is 0% linux/firefox users no matter if we spoof or not. It will just be fewer users.