Re:How I hacked Gogo inflight wireless Internet with Chrome
by jahewson on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @01:35PM
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> Let's say they were price discriminating by looking at the size of your browser window, assuming anything < 600x400 is mobile and charging less. Is it illegal to resize?
No. The browser window size, or user agent string are just proxies for the real question: is the device a laptop or a phone/tablet/etc?
Your laptop remains a laptop whatever size the window is. This guy's laptop remained very much not a phone after altering his user agent.
Edit: It's worth adding that desktop browsers do not use mobile device user agent strings during normal operation, but small windows are perfectly legitimate.
No. The browser window size, or user agent string are just proxies for the real question: is the device a laptop or a phone/tablet/etc?
Your laptop remains a laptop whatever size the window is. This guy's laptop remained very much not a phone after altering his user agent.
Edit: It's worth adding that desktop browsers do not use mobile device user agent strings during normal operation, but small windows are perfectly legitimate.