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Xenia wouldn't suggest that :c

please don’t harrass or insult that website, but I recently browsed that website because I wanted to get a wallpaper, but then I realized the top bar was saying “Xenia suggests you get Firefox”, wait what?? She wouldn’t suggest that first of all, second, this means that the website knows if you are using Google or Firefox, so that can be a harmful addition. I will talk to the owner maybe, that is bad because all browsers can be good!! And that website is really pretty but I dislike that top bar.

Pantherina ,

Every site sees your UA lol. Dont use Google Chrome. Why would you, use Brave or Ungoogled Chromium if you need to.

01adrianrdgz OP ,
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I understand but I would like to manage all of my files and backup my chrome Linux and by the way, Xenia would suggest that any browser is ok and any operating system too because in the end, all software companies work with each other.

infinipurple ,

You are utterly delusional.

Aatube ,
@Aatube@kbin.social avatar

Your UserAgent string

BautAufWasEuchAufbaut ,
@BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Based Xenia suggesting browsers for an open and healthy web. Go Xenia!

01adrianrdgz OP ,
@01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world avatar

yes!! It would also be based to suggest all browsers!!

Vincent ,

You mean the ones for a closed and unhealthy web? :P

Maybe they could recommend Windows as well, while they're at it, haha.

gary_host_laptop ,
@gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml avatar

I suggest you to use all browsers!11!1

BautAufWasEuchAufbaut ,
@BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

This account really doesn’t look like it’s a novelty account/a troll and that concerns me

01adrianrdgz OP ,
@01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world avatar

why does that make you concerned?? I hope you are ok!! I like all software and I love Linux but in the end I love technology and what matters is that I promote software friendship!! Available for everyone!!

BautAufWasEuchAufbaut ,
@BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Oh you’re young, sorry for the offensive wording. I saw you’re programming and trying technology out - good on you! I hope you’ll never lose your excitement about technology.
It’s quite a political thing, but I am sure you’ll find your way around it.

01adrianrdgz OP ,
@01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world avatar

I know everything about the current status of open source, I’ve read about Richard Stallman, about how he dislikes the word open source, but what we need to understand is that all software can be nice, nya!! And it’s ok I forgive you meow.

UnRelatedBurner ,

may I ask, how much anime do you watch?

YoorWeb ,

After scrolling for the last 15min out of interest, I concluded, it’s just some kid: lemmy.world/post/9536754

Rustmilian ,
@Rustmilian@lemmy.world avatar

It’s clearly a play on the fact Xenia is a Fox.

yum13241 ,

I know of one Fox, and he is Fox McCloud.

flamingos ,
@flamingos@feddit.uk avatar

Checking if the user is using Firefox is pretty easy:


<span style="color:#323232;">CSS.supports('(-moz-user-input: none)') // only returns true in FF
</span>
01adrianrdgz OP ,
@01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world avatar

ok thank you!! But why would the owner put that message?? We’re all Linux fans so it doesn’t matter what browser we use!!!

flamingos ,
@flamingos@feddit.uk avatar

Chrome, and browsers based on it, currently account for more than three quarters of web traffic. This gives Google a huge amount of power over the web and how people are able to interact with it. Google is also a company who’s primary business is advertising and surveillance; this means they have every incentive to curtail your ability to stop websites from spying on you and force you to use the web on their terms. They’re currently exercising this power with the rollout of Manifest V3, where they’re severely limiting the functionality of content blocking extensions like uBlock Origin.

01adrianrdgz OP ,
@01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world avatar

well at least they make and maintain Linux versions!!

Rustmilian , (edited )
@Rustmilian@lemmy.world avatar

It’s easy to do when your browser is based on GTK. In reality they do the bare minimum.

turbowafflz ,

Oh neat, we commented pretty much the same thing at the same time. I feel like yours is better written though

flamingos ,
@flamingos@feddit.uk avatar

Damn, what are the odds?

turbowafflz ,

It really does, if we give Google a monopoly over the web browser market they have way more power to do things like restricting ad blockers and tracking users. Remember: Google is an advertising company, they make their money from collecting user data and serving targeted ads. Everything else they do is secondary at this point and they will absolutely use their other products to increase the money they make from advertising as much as they can

01adrianrdgz OP ,
@01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world avatar

ok… well as long as they allow Firefox and the other browsers to be fine then that’s ok, and teach people to use other browsers if they want to of course!!

Ganbat ,

Except that they’ve already displayed that they won’t. Recently, Firefox users were targeted with an artificial delay on YouTube. When caught, they claimed it was about ad blockers… Except it didn’t affect chrome users with adblock and affected Firefox users without adblock.

And this has happened multiple times over the years, where little headaches and inconveniences would crop up on Google services, all of which could be fixed by changing your user agent so the site thinks you’re running chrome.

turbowafflz ,

I though the delay thing turned out to not be true. Or did I misread something?

Ganbat , (edited )

They admitted they were slowing users with ad blockers, but many Firefox users reported experiencing the slowdown regardless of whether they used an ad blocker.

The article I linked, however, says that they couldn’t get the delay to happen at all, so it’s entirely possible it was just so poorly implemented that it was affecting people almost at random.

Stalins_Spoon , (edited )
@Stalins_Spoon@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Wait till you find out about deviceinfo.me

StrawberryPigtails ,

Jeezus! Today I learned….

turbowafflz ,

Every website knows what browser you’re using unless you change your user agent to pretend to be a different one (although even that won’t always work). The banner is a little weird, but it really is good advice, chromium based browsers are a huge danger to the open web

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