I know I can spoof my useragent, it’s just ridiculous that such a massive app doesn’t support an equally massive browser.

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    4 months ago

    In this day and age it’s more work to explicitly not support a browser than it is to support it…

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        So often just swapping the user agent from Firefox to Chrome makes these sites work flawlessly. So they’re putting in extra code to detect Firefox and serve a “we don’t support your browser” page when they could just… not. And if a user complains about X, they could say we don’t test on Firefox, try on Chrome.

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          Yeah, but by putting up the “we don’t support this” banner, they won’t have to deal with the complaints in the first place.

          It’s also possible they want people to use Chromium for telemetry or other data-collection reasons, not sure.

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      4 months ago

      Another side I haven’t seen mentioned

      It might be easier to track users in Chrome. If even a few users open it in chrome instead of Firefox, that’s a benefit for them

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        Yeah, I’m sure Chrome works well with Google Analytics tools which seem to be on every site nowadays…