A Mozilla employee recently released a Firefox addon to change the user agent to Chrome on sites the user enables it on.
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2024
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The less people spoof and the more people use Firefox + Linux, the less of a need there will be to spoof at all.
I just won't use websites that won't work with a Firefox + Linux user agent in the same way I won't use a website that blocks ublock. I'm just not going to give Chrome or Windows a stat boost, even with Librewolf where I unspoofed the UA.
With Linux usage at an all time high, I'm itching for the year of the Linux desktop.
I totally agree with you. I'm not sure that strategy works though. All they will (still) see is 0% linux/firefox users no matter if we spoof or not. It will just be fewer users.