Comment on Welp, guess I'm going to hell

empireOfLove@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is actually exactly how user agents evolved.

  Chrome pretends to be safari.

  IE pretends to be Netscape.

  Safari pretends to be Firefox.

  humanwhocodes.com/…/history-of-the-user-agent-str…

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  • FinancesDrone98@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So it’s kind of like back in the Netscape days.

    Men are men, women are men, and little girls are FBI agents.

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• xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  interesting

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  • lnsfw3@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Stroking intensifies

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    • sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      lnsfw3@lemmynsfw.com

      Ew......

      • empireOfLove@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well, he was definitely stroking something.

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• ndguardian@lemmy.studio ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My SO just had something similar pop up yesterday. She was running into weird errors on her Chromebook, so I had her change her user agent to Chrome on Windows. Everything magically worked. Hmm…

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• Chais@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Which proves that M$ Teams definitely isn’t heaven, because some things actually don’t work with Firefox, as I recall.

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  • empireOfLove@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    that’s your own fault for using teams though

    also they don’t count since Microsoft changes all links to force open in Edge and there’s nothing you can do about it.

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    • Chais@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not like I had a choice

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      • empireOfLove@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You will use your corporate vendor lock-in garbage software and you will LIKE IT! THATS AN ORDER!!

        I don’t really care what happens on my work machine tbh. I’ll use whatever they set to default.

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    • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      $ cat firefox.exe > edge.exe doesn’t work?

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      • PoolloverNathan@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        enoent

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Microsoft changes all links to force open in Edge

      Or, that doesn’t work in Firefox either.

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  • starman@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Last time I tried to log in it said something about cookies and I had to use chrome.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Calls don’t work.

    I does video meetings perfectly well. But not calls. And if you never used Teams, just try to guess the difference.

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• GrievingWidow420@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Doesn’t solve the problem tho, which makes editing the useragent nothing but a temporary solution not worth being smartass-megamind about

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  • empireOfLove@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What is the perceived problem, then? 99% of sites these days are all built with kits that support Firefox just as well as Chromium, the dev choice to not support or intentionally lock out Firefox is either just laziness (not wanting to deal with any potential problems) or incentive driven (middle manager has word from high manager that they can’t support firefox because highest manager makes bank from Chromium).

    The technical limitation isn’t actually there, it’s a manufactured limitation. I think I’ve only ever encountered a single website that didn’t actually work on Firefox, and that was Weather Underground. Which they ended up fixing after 3 months or so.

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    • GrievingWidow420@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What is the perceived problem, then?

      Make sure to read this thoroughly this time.

      […]it’s almost always a manufactured limitation.

      Doesn’t that sound like a good description of a problem?

      I think I’ve only ever encountered a single website that didn’t actually technically work on Firefox[…]

      There’s gonna be a hell of a lot more of them, buddy. You’re gonna have to hang your cat on your balcony to get an estimate of future weather if you want to avoid using one of them how-are-these-even browsers.

      Imagine yourself as a homosexual man in Iran (should be easy). Would you say that hiding that big part of you from everyone and even go as far as marrying a woman you don’t even like just not to arouse suspicion makes the problem disappear? Just the fact that you need to spoof your useragent to view a shitty website, the developer of which would (should) die under a car one day 🤞, is a solid proof that you will soon be that homosexual man in Iran.

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      • empireOfLove@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Bro are you seriously comparing using a vendor locked web browser to being stoned for being gay in a conservative religious country 🤣🤣🤣

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