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Several government websites for the state of Pennsylvania complain and refuse to work if they detect you aren’t using chrome/edge/safari.

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bitwolf@lemmy.one ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You can spoof your useragent to appear as chrome. And you should as it makes your browser less “unique”

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- suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  While you can do this, it’s not clear to me that you should. There are a number of additional laws having to do with perjury and misusing goverment sites and while I would undoubtedly agree with you if were you to assert the application of those laws to the utilization of a user agent switcher is a ridiculous overreach, I am just as certain I have no desire to be on the hot-seat the day we all find out.
  
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  - bitwolf@lemmy.one ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh wow I didn’t know that. I’ll have to double check for the states that are relevant for me.
    
    I imagine many people naively install a privacy extension and unknowingly have altered useragents
    
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    datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Imagine the government coming after someone, demanding they give Google their fair share
    
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poke@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Do the sites work if you use an extension that lies to them about what browser you are using?

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