Sid@lemmy.zip to Firefox@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoTwitch is now blocking firefoxlemmy.zipimagemessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1205arrow-down1109
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minus-squareBolexForSoup@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoAite maybe this is a dumb question, but what is “changing the user agent”?
minus-squaresik0fewl@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoSomething you shouldn’t have to do in order to use the internet. There are browser plugins that let you change your user-agent request header to masquerade as another browser (e.g., Chrome).
minus-squareDr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoUser-Agent is a string of information that browsers use to identify to a site what browser, version, build, etc you are using. You can download FF extensions that allow you to spoof a different user-agent, making the site think you’re instead using Chrome, as an example.
Aite maybe this is a dumb question, but what is “changing the user agent”?
Something you shouldn’t have to do in order to use the internet.
There are browser plugins that let you change your user-agent request header to masquerade as another browser (e.g., Chrome).
Thanks!
User-Agent is a string of information that browsers use to identify to a site what browser, version, build, etc you are using.
You can download FF extensions that allow you to spoof a different user-agent, making the site think you’re instead using Chrome, as an example.
Thanks!