Firefox doesn’t pretend to use AppleWebKit. It’s actually the only one which identifies itself correctly… mostly, at least:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:122.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/122.0
While about:support says “Window Protocol: wayland”. But that’s ok websites shouldn’t care anyway.
It’s other browsers who send things like “like Gecko” to sneak past old browser-detection code.
7heo@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Yeah, make your user agent absolutely unique. That will surely confuse the shit out server side HTTP Header tracking. 😬
barsoap@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Having a non-unique user agent probably doesn’t make you not unique.
7heo@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Oh gee, I wasn’t aware there was more to it than the UA. Thanks for opening my eyes.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Yeah this isn’t my UA but I’m just saying these parts are what’s considered the supported featureset rather than information about what software the device is running.
7heo@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Yes, I get that point, but I also think that it’s tempting for the privacy-minded novice to think “the less information I provide, the better!”, while in actuality, it is better to provide “more” information: the most common UA, even if it means lying about your featureset. In this case, truly, more is less.