I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by immibis on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @11:13AM (#42699081)

Even market-dominant companies do this. Windows ships a bunch of backward compatibility patches. Graphics card drivers (especially Nvidia) wholesale replace shaders in popular games.

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Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by darknavi on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @11:48AM (#42699834)

Webkit does this.

Examples:

- https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/pa...

- https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/pl...

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Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by immibis on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @04:22AM (#42708987)

> DuckDuckGo discriminates against WebKitGTK's standard user agent by returning an HTTP 400 Bad Request error when loading every search result.

I guess they only want spyware browsers on DDG.

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Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by int_19h on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @02:16PM (#42702306)

Thing is, Opera had to do this specifically to work around stuff like UA-based degradation of service on YouTube etc.

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