I won’t spoof the agent. I want Google to know I’ll keep using Firefox no matter what. Except for YouTube, I don’t use any other service of theirs, too shitty.
The best way to make them back down is to show we won’t bow.
The other day, I finally switched to ProtonMail. I still just forward my gmail inbox for now because I’m too lazy to go through all my accounts and change the email all at once. In due time, I will have switched. Fuck Google.
Laughts in agent spoofing
Browser detection is rarely done through User Agent lookup anymore. Nowadays we determine browser through feature detection.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Browser_detection_using_the_user_agent#avoiding_user_agent_detection
And yet in this case if I change my agent to any non-FF value while using FF, videos load immediately.
I set my agent back to FF, 5 second delay.
I won’t spoof the agent. I want Google to know I’ll keep using Firefox no matter what. Except for YouTube, I don’t use any other service of theirs, too shitty.
The best way to make them back down is to show we won’t bow.
The other day, I finally switched to ProtonMail. I still just forward my gmail inbox for now because I’m too lazy to go through all my accounts and change the email all at once. In due time, I will have switched. Fuck Google.