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[–] aseriesoftubes 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Google has been doing this kind of thing for a while. If you try to use Google Meet in Firefox, you can’t use things like background blurring. Spoofing Chrome works in that situation as well.

[–] Lemminary 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the stupid thing is that all I use Chrome for is Meets... And that's it. Do they really think they win me over?

[–] chiliedogg 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not you or me. But most people, yeah.

[–] sulsaz 7 points 1 year ago

That is, as always, the problem: it works for them. The average Joe isn't going to implement a new filter into ublock...

[–] FontMasterFlex 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] dual_sport_dork 17 points 1 year ago

You can change your user agent string, the text your browser uses to tell the web site you're looking at what browser it is, either via your F12 developer tools menu or via an extension.

[–] scholar 11 points 1 year ago

The most convenient way is with a browser extension that changes your user agent. You can also change it in the developer options of most browsers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It works for me now. Only took them 8 years