U.S. judge says LinkedIn cannot block startup from public profile data

Re:U.S. judge says LinkedIn cannot block startup from public... by rev_bird on Monday August 14, 2017 @06:05PM (#15013445)

I'd be willing to bet that the user-agent field isn't the problem; it's patterns that everything looks for now, right? People have been lying in the request headers for decades.

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Re:U.S. judge says LinkedIn cannot block startup from public... by Maultasche on Monday August 14, 2017 @07:46PM (#15014080)

Yeah, I remember a plugin in the early days of Firefox that allowed Firefox pretend to be Internet Explorer. It would send request headers that made it appear to be IE.

There were websites at the time that would display just fine in Firefox, but would refuse to display anything if they detected a non-IE browser.

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