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submitted 1 week ago by potentiallynotfelix to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

I know I can spoof my useragent, it's just ridiculous that such a massive app doesn't support an equally massive browser.

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[-] BluescreenOfDeath@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So often just swapping the user agent from Firefox to Chrome makes these sites work flawlessly. So they're putting in extra code to detect Firefox and serve a "we don't support your browser" page when they could just... not. And if a user complains about X, they could say we don't test on Firefox, try on Chrome.

[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Yeah, but by putting up the "we don't support this" banner, they won't have to deal with the complaints in the first place.

It's also possible they want people to use Chromium for telemetry or other data-collection reasons, not sure.

[-] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I wonder if it's possible that they're paid money by Google to not support Firefox?

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