A Mozilla employee recently released a Firefox addon to change the user agent to Chrome on sites the user enables it on.
I always grab a user agent switcher right after uBlock, comes in handy… makes me feel like Hackerman ;-)
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2024
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Makes me feel like a caveman doing the about:config string change since like 8th grade.
O.G. Status ;-)
wait you can still change ua with about:config? how?
I use Chameleon. My user agent changes every 30 seconds
Doesn't that causes issues with sites using Cloudflare anti bot protection? But maybe my add-on was sending a different one for each request. I am using User Agent Switcher. I disabled it and only enable it on YouTube.
It depends how horribly the website has misconfigured cloudflare. I can log into cloudflare's website.
Generally I prefer websites that don't use cloudflare. Its a massive security risk
How is Cloudflare a massive security risk?
How are they not? They are a MITM and a company based in The US.
You're not wrong.
I’m like that :-) Going to have to give it a try.
I kinda want to see one of Microsoft’s websites having a javascript seizure trying to recommend you switch to Edge 😂
Oh, TIL. Thank you.
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.
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.
Not bad.
I love that I always find out about cool things via memes.
What do you think about sites that don't work with all variety of DNS (not even cloudflare) or proxies or tor or Firefox or Chrome or varied AP or varied devices--in short, all access combinations?
Dead link? Total Information Awareness roving tap castiron?
Can you unblock 404 Media podcasts on Signal and Identity Hacked? Tried both Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Awesome, it works for the one website I use that doesn't like Firefox