• gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    29 days ago

    i never understood how those messages work? like how would using firefox ruin your website? or how they even detect firefox in the first place lmfao

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      29 days ago

      They can in theory make tricks showing that you are using an ad blocker or a specific browser. Even if you set Chrome’s user agent in Firefox.

      I personally wouldn’t make such effort to use such websites then.

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      29 days ago

      Browsers have user-agent identifiers, websites can see what browser and what version you use.

      They are mostly used to run browser-dependent code to avoid some things breaking in some browsers.