Re:User-agent string changes
by smacktoward on Saturday November 22, 2014 @07:51PM
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This was what people said about Windows before Vista, too. "Broken apps should just break! It'll push the developers of broken apps to fix their shit!"
Then Microsoft listened to them and did that with UAC, breaking tons of apps that assumed (stupidly) that they would be running with administrator privileges all the time.
Who did the users blame for the breakage? Not the app developers. They blamed Microsoft. "It worked fine, until I installed Vista!"
The point: "just let things break" is one of those ideas that sounds 100% reasonable, until you try it.
Then Microsoft listened to them and did that with UAC, breaking tons of apps that assumed (stupidly) that they would be running with administrator privileges all the time.
Who did the users blame for the breakage? Not the app developers. They blamed Microsoft. "It worked fine, until I installed Vista!"
The point: "just let things break" is one of those ideas that sounds 100% reasonable, until you try it.