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gioi on Feb 10, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Play Store: Browsing with Firefox is no lon...

Sightly off-topic but:

Do we really need user agent? What are good reasons we should keep on using them? I could find none...

hrjet on Feb 10, 2015 [–]

Disabling the user-agent breaks quite a few websites as of today, but I agree, it's a good way forward to break the hegemony of certain websites and browsers.

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