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A Mozilla employee recently released a Firefox addon to change the user agent to Chrome on sites the user enables it on.

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[–] sramder@lemmy.world 103 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I always grab a user agent switcher right after uBlock, comes in handy… makes me feel like Hackerman ;-)

[–] admin@sh.itjust.works 45 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Makes me feel like a caveman doing the about:config string change since like 8th grade.

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

O.G. Status ;-)

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 months ago

wait you can still change ua with about:config? how?

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I use Chameleon. My user agent changes every 30 seconds

[–] Sprokes@jlai.lu 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't that causes issues with sites using Cloudflare anti bot protection? But maybe my add-on was sending a different one for each request. I am using User Agent Switcher. I disabled it and only enable it on YouTube.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It depends how horribly the website has misconfigured cloudflare. I can log into cloudflare's website.

Generally I prefer websites that don't use cloudflare. Its a massive security risk

[–] stom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How is Cloudflare a massive security risk?

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How are they not? They are a MITM and a company based in The US.

[–] LaSirena@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

You're not wrong.

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I’m like that :-) Going to have to give it a try.

I kinda want to see one of Microsoft’s websites having a javascript seizure trying to recommend you switch to Edge 😂