BlackWinnerYoshi wrote on June 16, 2021 at 1:32 PM

Reply to comment by Wahaha in How Websites Know You're Lying About Your User-Agent by Rambler

I don't even change my user agent most of the time, so it just equals to what my browser is, but pretending to be Windows 10 while I actually have Windows 7, so it is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 currently (this is what LibreWolf does by default, btw).

So anyway, the only time the user agent differs from the defaults is when I want to enable a desktop version on mobile and when I want to bypass getting user agent blocked because I'm using Wget, so I usually just empty it (or set it to a browser user agent because it also gets blocked).

Also, since I block third party scripts with uMatrix by default, there's not much point to constantly changing the user agent because the trackers won't see it anyway.

Wahaha wrote on June 16, 2021 at 4:29 PM

Some sites only work by enabling scripts.

BlackWinnerYoshi wrote on June 16, 2021 at 5:00 PM

But I usually can enable only some of the scripts. Besides, there are probably better ways of tracking someone, like cough the FLoCing FLoC. cough

But since I don't use Chromium browsers any more, they can't actually do that, and I doubt it's coming to Firefox, unless you count its inevitable death.

Wahaha wrote on June 16, 2021 at 5:10 PM

Calling it now, Firefox will move to Chrome's browser engine, too.

BlackWinnerYoshi wrote on June 16, 2021 at 5:44 PM (edited on June 17, 2021 at 10:21 AM)

Firefox usage fell by 1.02% from 2020-05 to 2021-05, so over the next three years, it should fall to about 0.3%, and I guess it's pretty much dead at this point, so it will merge with Chromium, I bet. Edit: I knew someone already said it.