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Date:      Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:52:18 +0900
From:      "lain." <lain@fair.moe>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Recent Firefox reports as Linux on FreeBSD
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On 2024=E5=B9=B403=E6=9C=8810=E6=97=A5 22:16, the silly Tomek CEDRO claimed=
 to have said:
> I just realized that recently Firefox (123.0) on FreeBSD reports as Linux:
>=3D20
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0
>=3D20
> I think this is unacceptable (upstream?) dirty hack making FreeBSD
> disappear completely from the web / statistics / etc :-(

On the flip side, doing so will fix the broken internet on 1 specific
thing.
Many websites require you to use a specific OS on a specific browser,
that is because most web developers today have no idea how to make a
website.
All the know is how they can use NPM/Yarn/PNPM or whatever the shiniest
hip Javascript package manager of the week is to run off somebody else's
code with some slight alternations, but HTML and CSS is way too hard for
them.

And because of this, we get this mess in which only specific platforms
are supported on something that's supposed to be platform independent.

I should say this is not FreeBSD-specific, I noticed the exact same
thing on OpenBSD as well, in which all browsers now report "Linux"
instead of "OpenBSD".

--=20
lain.

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If you're writing your emails unencrypted, please consider sending PGP encr=
ypted emails for security reasons.
You can find my PGP public key at: https://fair.moe/lain.asc

Every good email client is able to send encrypted emails.
If yours can't, then you should consider switching to a secure email client=
, because yours just sucks.

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