morrowind@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoFirefox is on the brink of being dropped by the US Governmentwww.brycewray.comexternal-linkmessage-square248fedilinkarrow-up1651cross-posted to: firefox@lemmy.worldfirefox@lemmy.mlhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
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minus-squaresir_reginald@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·11 months agoif you spoof your user-agent it won’t help Firefox in metrics, since websites will think you’re other browser.
minus-squarefristislurper@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-211 months agoNono, the other way round. Visit it with chrome and spoof a firefox user agent, so it looks like you used firefox, while you can still use the website.
minus-squarekttnpunk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-211 months agoWell I only suggest it for sites one has to use, and even then I think it would still show google people are fed up with their shit
if you spoof your user-agent it won’t help Firefox in metrics, since websites will think you’re other browser.
Nono, the other way round. Visit it with chrome and spoof a firefox user agent, so it looks like you used firefox, while you can still use the website.
Well I only suggest it for sites one has to use, and even then I think it would still show google people are fed up with their shit