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 @downey Especially "fun" if you update your router to the latest firmware – and it comes back online with such a "friendly hint" without any chance for you to get in again. Just tested for you… (luckily I use a 5-browser-concept so I was able to get in with one of the others) What can be so difficult with a simple web interface that it needs a specific browser? 6 comments
@christopherklay you can and I can, and I bet @downey can as well. But many users are simply lost at that point. Furthermore, if faking the agent does the trick, the blocker was entirely unnecessary. And as for "using multiple ones": I do that for multiple reasons. One of them is "compartments" (yes I know "container tabs", but what's in different browsers is an entirely different beast). @IzzyOnDroid @downey I completely agree that the blocker is pointless to begin with. My point is mostly that simply having a user agent switcher installed that solves any of these issues down the line, is the easier solution compared to opening the page in a different browser every time it happens. After all, the majority of people isn't running multiple ones, or is even logged in (if needed) in a second one. @IzzyOnDroid @RealMo if I just want to read text, like in an article, I open it in Emacs's Eww mode. I avoid all the garbage and distractions, and can manipulate it however I like. @christopherklay @IzzyOnDroid @downey yeah. Although the trouble is that the people who probably have the greatest need of sites like this and also have a high likelihood of running “Unsupported” browsers probably aren’t the kind to poke around the dev menu |
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@IzzyOnDroid @downey Just a heads-up; You can easily fake your user agent via extensions (to the point of pressing a button, followed by the browser).
There isn't a whole lot of things that aren't done easier in-browser, compared to using multiple ones nowadays.