<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">This probably affects more than KDE/Gnome-based browsers.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2020-November/031604.html" class="">https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2020-November/031604.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">> Google says: "The browser must identify itself clearly in the </div><div class="">> User-Agent. The browser must not try to impersonate another browser </div><div class="">> like Chrome or Firefox." We cannot comply with this because user agent </div><div class="">> spoofing is required for compatibility with various Google websites. I </div><div class="">> am continually fighting to maintain our user agent quirks for Google </div><div class="">> domains, see e.g. [1] or [2]. Even if we were to remove all user agent </div><div class="">> quirks, it would still be impossible for Google to distinguish between </div><div class="">> a desktop browser and an embedded browser framework, since the user </div><div class="">> agent header is going to be the same: Epiphany doesn't even append </div><div class="">> "Epiphany" anymore, in order to maximize the chances that websites will </div><div class="">> treat us like Safari. Even if we did, there are many other WebKit-based </div><div class="">> browsers that would be impacted (off the top of my head: eolie, surf, </div><div class="">> etc.)</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yeah, until such time as websites actually just render shit and stop obsessing over UserAgent strings, this will be an issue. But now it’ll be more of one.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Deirdre</div></body></html>