Re:Firefox Browser: best for a free web
by boomboomsubban on Monday September 13, 2021 @09:20PM
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Either uBlock Origin or Matrix comes with user agent spoofing, it's not like the practice is that rare.
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Re:Firefox Browser: best for a free web
by unityByFreedom on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:00AM
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Matrix used to do this but doesn't anymore [1] and uBlock never had that feature. Please don't make stuff up.
Re:Firefox Browser: best for a free web
by boomboomsubban on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:47AM
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I don't think it's fair to call not knowing that a feature was removed from a discontinued app "making stuff up."
I was clearly wrong, though it is easy to change your user agent it's unlikely that many Firefox users have done it.
Re:Firefox Browser: best for a free web
by unityByFreedom on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:23AM
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You're right, I misunderstood your comment. I interpreted what you said as in, you can get this feature via either Matrix or uBlock. I see now you meant one of those has the feature and you weren't sure which one had it. Sorry about that. In my defense I think it can be read both ways.
I'd add there is a large gap in usage between uBlock and Matrix. uBlock has over 10 million users whereas Matrix is somewhere over 100,000.
Re:Firefox Browser: best for a free web
by unityByFreedom on Monday September 13, 2021 @09:53PM
(#28519267)
Does uBlock Origin turn that on by default? That's the only way I could imagine such stats being wrong by a wide margin.
Re:Firefox Browser: best for a free web
by executesorder66 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:22AM
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By mozilla's own metrics only 30% of their users use any addon at all.