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		paxys 19 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: Firefox is being slowly deprecated by the... Spoof the user agent. I'd bet the vast majority of "only works on XYZ browser" websites will still work.

duckmysick 19 days ago | [–]

There's some irony in Chrome's user agent referencing Mozilla and Gecko for historical compatibility reasons: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

batisteo 19 days ago | [–]

I do agree, but at scale it shrink the percieved usage of Firefox (and derivatves) even more

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