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turbowafflz 56 points 3 years ago

Every website knows what browser you're using unless you change your user agent to pretend to be a different one (although even that won't always work). The banner is a little weird, but it really is good advice, chromium based browsers are a huge danger to the open web

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BautAufWasEuchAufbaut 38 points 3 years ago

Based Xenia suggesting browsers for an open and healthy web. Go Xenia!

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01adrianrdgz -28 points 3 years ago

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Vincent 17 points 3 years ago

You mean the ones for a closed and unhealthy web? :P

Maybe they could recommend Windows as well, while they're at it, haha.

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BautAufWasEuchAufbaut 13 points 3 years ago

This account really doesn't look like it's a novelty account/a troll and that concerns me

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YoorWeb 2 points 3 years ago

After scrolling for the last 15min out of interest, I concluded, it's just some kid: https://lemmy.world/post/9536754

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01adrianrdgz -6 points 3 years ago

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BautAufWasEuchAufbaut 7 points 3 years ago

Oh you're young, sorry for the offensive wording. I saw you're programming and trying technology out - good on you! I hope you'll never lose your excitement about technology.
It's quite a political thing, but I am sure you'll find your way around it.

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flamingos 21 points 3 years ago

Checking if the user is using Firefox is pretty easy:

CSS.supports('(-moz-user-input: none)') // only returns true in FF

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01adrianrdgz -42 points 3 years ago

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turbowafflz 52 points 3 years ago

It really does, if we give Google a monopoly over the web browser market they have way more power to do things like restricting ad blockers and tracking users. Remember: Google is an advertising company, they make their money from collecting user data and serving targeted ads. Everything else they do is secondary at this point and they will absolutely use their other products to increase the money they make from advertising as much as they can

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01adrianrdgz -24 points 3 years ago

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Ganbat 15 points 3 years ago

Except that they've already displayed that they won't. Recently, Firefox users were targeted with an artificial delay on YouTube. When caught, they claimed it was about ad blockers... Except it didn't affect chrome users with adblock and affected Firefox users without adblock.

And this has happened multiple times over the years, where little headaches and inconveniences would crop up on Google services, all of which could be fixed by changing your user agent so the site thinks you're running chrome.

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flamingos 28 points 3 years ago

Chrome, and browsers based on it, currently account for more than three quarters of web traffic. This gives Google a huge amount of power over the web and how people are able to interact with it. Google is also a company who's primary business is advertising and surveillance; this means they have every incentive to curtail your ability to stop websites from spying on you and force you to use the web on their terms. They're currently exercising this power with the rollout of Manifest V3, where they're severely limiting the functionality of content blocking extensions like uBlock Origin.

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turbowafflz 11 points 3 years ago

Oh neat, we commented pretty much the same thing at the same time. I feel like yours is better written though

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flamingos 10 points 3 years ago

Damn, what are the odds?

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01adrianrdgz -24 points 3 years ago

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Rustmilian 8 points 3 years ago

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Rustmilian 14 points 3 years ago

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yum13241 1 point 3 years ago

I know of one Fox, and he is Fox McCloud.

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Aatube 7 points 3 years ago

Your UserAgent string

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Pantherina 3 points 3 years ago

Every site sees your UA lol. Dont use Google Chrome. Why would you, use Brave or Ungoogled Chromium if you need to.

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01adrianrdgz -13 points 3 years ago

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infinipurple 2 points 3 years ago

You are utterly delusional.

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