• Fashim@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Yeah I’ve got an extension for it, it just changes the user-agent string.

      I use it on YouTube because for some totally not suspicious reason Firefox won’t play videos but when I spoof it to Chrome everything works fine.

    • dan@upvote.au
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      3 months ago

      Not always doable as they could be relying on non-standard features that are only in Chrome.

      Not exactly the same thing, but my employer requires us to use Chrome for all internal stuff, as they’re using Chrome Enterprise Premium as part of their endpoint security solution, and of of course that only works in Chrome.

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      3 months ago

      It takes more than changing your user agent to msk which browser you use. It’s trivial to know which browser you’re really using if they really want.

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        3 months ago

        I’m pretty sure it’s much easier to mask your browser than detect the correct browser. In the end you’re just hitting a server for data, you fully control the call that is made.

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          3 months ago

          There are things you can’t do with extensions alone, like change how certain JS and CSS internals work.