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Is this correct? If so, this is not acceptable. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit: Replies to this thread indicate this is not fully correct as it exists on all browsers; and is likely an ad thing.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Laughts in agent spoofing

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Browser detection is rarely done through User Agent lookup anymore. Nowadays we determine browser through feature detection.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Browser_detection_using_the_user_agent#avoiding_user_agent_detection

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And yet in this case if I change my agent to any non-FF value while using FF, videos load immediately.

I set my agent back to FF, 5 second delay.

[–] TrickDacy 2 points 10 months ago

Doesn't matter what's the best way to do it in reality. UA is easily a possibility for any website. Nothing stopping it

[–] SpaceNoodle 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How so?

[–] krigo666 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I won't spoof the agent. I want Google to know I'll keep using Firefox no matter what. Except for YouTube, I don't use any other service of theirs, too shitty.

The best way to make them back down is to show we won't bow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The other day, I finally switched to ProtonMail. I still just forward my gmail inbox for now because I'm too lazy to go through all my accounts and change the email all at once. In due time, I will have switched. Fuck Google.