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Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions
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this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2024
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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
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.
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.