inb4 sites start blocking Firefox to prevent adblocking :desolate:
if you're not using Firefox you're a :LIB:
inb4 sites start blocking Firefox to prevent adblocking
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher :not-hillary:
Sadly not the silver bullet it once was. These days asshole sites will run some random experimental js that chrome happens to support and firefox doesn't. If they get an error the user is running firefox.
Sites that I won't be visiting :shrug-outta-hecks: in my experience that hasn't been very common, most at least nominally support both
The only sites that work noticeably worse on Firefox than on chrome are Google sites because, well, of course
Society is a fuck and I am a firm believer that advertising is a major driver of that.
Pump more slop into brains!
Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
I've never understood technically inclined users with using Chrome. It was only ever possibly going to end one way, like what did they expect? Make the largest ad server in the world the manufacturer of the most used browser... What could their motivation possibly be?
For a while Firefox got way behind on performance compared to Chrome. I remember switch over and being blown away by how snappy everything was. Now though I'd agree with you, there's no reason to use Chrome if you care at all about these things.
Even most "FOSS" "user freedom" advocate aren't able to properly and clearly articulate why the things tech megacorps do are evil. Because the technically inclined people who fill these spaces and forums and blogs tend to be apolitical even in their politics, they always frame it as a problem of not being given enough choice, like they can't say that something is bad per se, just that it's bad if the user can't choose anything different. They have no conception of liberated computing (and truth be told, most avowed leftist techies don't have one either; such a thing is still to be fully developed), so when Google gains more and more control over the bodies that dictate web standards, and as the web itself becomes increasingly under the control and surveillance of megacorps, they can't experience it as truly sinister as long as some choice is still there to just use a different browser or platform or rooted device with an underdeveloped experimental FOSS OS installed.
Biggest lib I know built his computer and had never heard of it, I also remember him defending ads because what about people's revenue when I asked why he didn't use a blocker.
if they do, i'll just do what i always do when a site insists that i have to see ads to access the content: close the tab
inb4 sites start blocking Firefox to prevent adblocking
Good. I won't have to manually update my spam filter anymore.
I think all you'd need to do at that point is change the User-Agent string and the page would load.
