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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (24 children)

What I'm scared is publishers taking this as a reason to simply start banning Firefox and other browsers.

[–] SendMePhotos 7 points 3 months ago (15 children)

Yeah but can't you just get a thing that tells things that you're using chrome when you're not

[–] Fashim 6 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Yeah I've got an extension for it, it just changes the user-agent string.

I use it on YouTube because for some totally not suspicious reason Firefox won't play videos but when I spoof it to Chrome everything works fine.

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