20 Dec
2019
20 Dec
'19
11:57 a.m.
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 11:06:56 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Because some internet websites unfairly block browsers from accessing their services, starting with Vivaldi 2.10, released today, the Vivaldi browser plans to disguise itself as Chrome to allow users to access websites that unfairly block them.'
Sad, but not the first browser vendor to have to do this sort of thing. Look at Microsoft’s user-agent strings, e.g. <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/19/vivaldi_user_agent/>. In my own web-page coding, I prefer to check for needed functionality directly, rather than trying to guess based on user-agent strings. Of course, my needs are probably simpler than those of these big, important companies that like to make their own rules ...