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Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions(www.androidpolice.com)

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Integrate777@discuss.online
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What if websites decide that chrome users earn much more ad revenue and start forcing users to switch with those “This website only supports Chrome” error messages? What if this practice gets popular? I’m sure there are ways to get around it, but the average users who bothered switching to Firefox at all, will just conclude that anything except chrome has a bad browsing experience.

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Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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Can’t you have your Firefox browser just report itself as chrome?

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ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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You certainly can. They don’t know what you’re doing.

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linearchaos@lemmy.world
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It’s all fun and games till they check for web USB support. They don’t need to actually use web USB but it’s a telltale sign that you’re not on Chrome.

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PriorityMotif@lemmy.world
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Then apple would whip out their giant throbbing cock and smack them with it because they want people using safari.

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gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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i never understood how those messages work? like how would using firefox ruin your website? or how they even detect firefox in the first place lmfao

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rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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They can in theory make tricks showing that you are using an ad blocker or a specific browser. Even if you set Chrome’s user agent in Firefox.

I personally wouldn’t make such effort to use such websites then.

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Rolling Resistance@lemmy.world
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Browsers have user-agent identifiers, websites can see what browser and what version you use.

They are mostly used to run browser-dependent code to avoid some things breaking in some browsers.

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leopold@lemmy.kde.social
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Visit about:compat. Sites already do that. Firefox can deal.

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