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Re:Myspace previews complete redesign by jarek on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @01:29PM (#4571531)
Not sure if that was sarcasm or not. What that actually says is that they're explicitly blocking Opera by the user-agent string, and haven't bothered blocking Lynx. As pointed out elsewhere in comments here, the page actually works just fine in Opera when you tell it to spoof the user-agent string to pretend it's Firefox.
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Re:Myspace previews complete redesign by sunkencity on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @02:33PM (#4571895)
Yeah, it's pretty a bad practice blocking on user agent. Re: Opera - I just think it's a pain and an unwanted cost to support Opera. Though my dislike for Opera comes mainly from having developed mobile apps for a long time and having to deal with debugging though their "enhancing" proxy.
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Re:Myspace previews complete redesign by jarek on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @03:03PM (#4572063)
These days I have no problem with sites who don't want to support some users, that's their call. I wouldn't recommend suggesting the users must not use the internet very often though.
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