Myspace previews complete redesign

Re:Myspace previews complete redesign by ricardobeat on Monday September 24, 2012 @10:58PM (#4568317)

Don't provide any extra support? "Your browser is not supported/you are on your own" is much better than denying access.

Eventually people will start spoofing just to get in, and then you have a much worse problem in your hands. You know the Opera story. There is no excuse to block user agents unless it's commercial software with support contracts on the line.

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Re:Myspace previews complete redesign by __abc on Monday September 24, 2012 @11:47PM (#4568469)

I challenge your assumption that the average person knows how to spoof user agents.

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Re:Myspace previews complete redesign by ricardobeat on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @12:46AM (#4568622)

The average person is not using Opera :)

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Re:Myspace previews complete redesign by devb0x on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @01:28AM (#4568759)

I agree.. plus I'm using Opera as I type this.

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Re:Myspace previews complete redesign by chris_wot on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @07:09AM (#4569697)

It could be worse. You might be using Dillo.

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Re:Myspace previews complete redesign by exterm on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @11:38AM (#4570909)

Actually that's quite easy in Opera. There is a dropdown box to select different user agents called "Browser Identification".

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Re:Myspace previews complete redesign by __abc on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @03:19PM (#4572150)

I understand that the HN audience finds it incredibly simple to do. My point being, go ask your family members who don't frequent HN (or sites like it) what a user-agent is.

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