Visit about:compat in your firefox. I find it insane that these exist.
Edit: I’ve learned that this is part of the webcompat system addon developed by Mozilla and other contributors. I see why this is beneficial default behavior, since FF has no chance of getting enough market share to matter more if things are broken.
However, this behavior is too intrusive for my taste. For example this injection: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/8a4afb4d34f8/browser/extensions/webcompat/injections/js/bug1472075-bankofamerica.com-ua-change.js is basically just to silence annoying user reports.
Also, Every site FF pretends to be a different UA on is artificially reducing FF market share data.
Pretty sure it’s always been like this.
The web is a mess. If you do anything on it on any combination of software and hardware and expect security or functionality you’re barking up the wrong tree.
You’re probably right. I just want what’s advertised: software that uses web standards to interact with servers on my behalf. Idk where this feature lands on that scale. This seems like a pre-browser-extension sort of feature that is obsolete now.
May I interest you in lynx?
Yaaassss :D when can I get framebuffer support on Android? 😹
Don’t look too far into android if the browser having a bunch of compatibility exceptions baked in makes you squeamish.
Enshittification!
Just imagine slipping in a new compatibility fix for a banking website… Or maybe a crypto custodian…
No sneaky backdoor required, just change some data.
