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TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months ago

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TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months ago
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A Mozilla employee recently released a Firefox addon to change the user agent to Chrome on sites the user enables it on.

  • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-mask/
  • https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1eic7bj/chroe_mask_makes_firefox_wear_a_mask_to_look_like/
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      You mean WebCompat.com, the Mozilla service that’s been working against browser monoculture for years?

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      I think you got the message backwards. What’s actually happening is Firefox runs a mask to look like Google. In an alternate universe Mozilla is evil and Google is having to mask.

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        Ah, ok, my bad. I missed the joke :(

        I really thought that the Mozilla extension was an answer to a move that Google made.

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      What do you expect this to achieve?

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