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Julian Fietkau

@marcan Wasn't it Google that was going to phase out user agent strings altogether? I guess that's not going too smoothly.

zdnet.com/article/google-to-ph

12 Dec 2023 at 11:46 | Wall-to-wall | Open on fietkau.social
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funbaker

@julian Why would they? They are trying to write client detection into the DNS of the internet. @marcan

12 Dec 2023 at 12:15 | Open on chaos.social
Peter Bindels

@funbaker @julian @marcan No point in keeping an insecure system when you can create a secure one. Stop using user-agent strings that are often faked and instead use unfakeable attestations.

To prevent people like @marcan and myself from getting things to work properly, as you see here.

12 Dec 2023 at 13:52 | Open on mastodon.social
funbaker
Peter Bindels

@funbaker @julian @marcan Just imagine people with money escaping from the grasp of a huge company. That'd result in lower shareholder earnings!

12 Dec 2023 at 13:55 | Open on mastodon.social
Proxfox Virtual Environment 🦊

@julian @marcan i'm still annoyed at them for blocking Leanback (youtube.com/tv) for anyone who doesn't have a smart TV user agent

12 Dec 2023 at 12:23 | Open on tech.lgbt
Psykus

@tay So you can still use it by spoofing user-agent? Will have to try that.

12 Dec 2023 at 14:29 | Open on mastodon.social
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