The Chrome Canary in the coal mine just went silent, as uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions can no longer be re-enabled via flags
  • gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    51·
    3 months ago

    i never understood how those messages work? like how would using firefox ruin your website? or how they even detect firefox in the first place lmfao

    • Rolling Resistance@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Browsers have user-agent identifiers, websites can see what browser and what version you use.

      They are mostly used to run browser-dependent code to avoid some things breaking in some browsers.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      They can in theory make tricks showing that you are using an ad blocker or a specific browser. Even if you set Chrome’s user agent in Firefox.

      I personally wouldn’t make such effort to use such websites then.