Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] Partial freezing of the User-Agent string (#467)

> The user agent is very difficult due to such competing interests.

I suppose a wild proposal would be to allow most websites to receive accurate information, except websites that abuse this privilege by blocking small browsers. In this fantasy proposal, when Epiphany users discover a website blocking them or otherwise degrading the user experience, we would report the issue to Chrome, and Chrome would update its own quirks list to send a fake Epiphany user agent just to the affected website in order to intentionally break that website for all Chrome users, to force the website to fix the issue. That way, small ad networks and websites that want to use the user agent for non-abusive purposes could continue to do so, without harming small browsers. It's not a very serious proposal, because it would require Chrome devs to intentionally break major websites for Chrome users, but I don't know what else would satisfy both web developers and small browsers.

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