Sometimes I wonder if Firefox actually has low market share, of if this sort of shit just skews the statistics.
I, for one, refuse to spoof my browser because I want them to know Chrome is not as dominant as they think.
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bassomitron@lemmy.world 3 days agoTry using the extension that can spoof what browser you’re using. Last year, Firefox was being hindered by YouTube until I downloaded that and made it think I was using a Chrome browser.
grue@lemmy.world 3 days ago
sexy_peach@feddit.org 3 days ago
That’s not the reason for low market share. Most people just don’t use ff
grue@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Most people just don’t use ff
How do you know? Statistics reported by websites… which are recording user agent strings?
splendoruranium@infosec.pub 2 days ago
How do you know? Statistics reported by websites… which are recording user agent strings?
If you randomly stopped people in the streets and asked them what a user agent was, you’d get a certain percentage of folks that give you the correct answer. That percentage is the upper ceiling for any possible error margin that websites recording user strings have in attributing those strings to actual browsers, since nobody unaware of that term will know how or be interested in changing their user agent.
Do you think it likely that this percentage is going to be in any way, shape or form… impactful, considering that most people won’t be able to tell you what a browser is? 😜
Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/chrome-mask/
This extension also shims a few additional JavaScript attributes, like navigator.vendor or the global chrome object, to pass common browser checks
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sure would be nice if we had net neutrality back and they couldn’t pull this bullshit