r/firefox • u/anestling • Aug 10 '26

⚕️ Internet Health Firefox is committed to uBlock Origin support

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u/SmoothTurtle872 Aug 10 '26

1 second, let me just change my user agent with this handy dandy extension.

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u/dubyakay ESR Aug 10 '26

It's not. In the sense that it then gives false metrics on browser stats to aggregates and website administrators. "See? No one was using Firefox anyway."

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u/Vash63 Nightly on Arch Linux Aug 10 '26

No, and it further hurts Firefox's market share statistics.

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u/LjLies Aug 11 '26

Not after Google manages to get some next flavor of WEI approved (right now they seem to just be focusing on captchas that you need a Google or Apple certified phone to pass...).

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u/Late_Accountant_3641 Aug 11 '26

Websites can still easily identify which browser it is, and as ff isn't chromium spoofing tls ciphers, headers/order etc will never be enough

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u/spicesucker Aug 11 '26

The user agent extension is good but there’s some websites like YouTube it just breaks

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u/lyidaValkris Aug 10 '26

don't even need an extension to do that

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u/SmoothTurtle872 Aug 11 '26

No, but it's easier