Which is why all browsers cross identify as other browsers. This would make it easier for sites to block and harder for browsers to work around.
Which is why all browsers cross identify as other browsers. This would make it easier for sites to block and harder for browsers to work around.
Sad thing is, plenty of people will lap this up as a good thing and see it as a benefit. At least at first, until they realize they have to watch some TV based ads before they watch the ad roll on their YouTube video, followed by the second screen showing some banner ad the whole time. Yick.
I hadn’t heard that stag from Twitter, but I really do hope that is how it is on reddit and that the content generating users have begin making the switch. Sadly, I think some of reddit recent rise in popularity attracted some folks there only for views so they’ll probably stay. Hopefully their content isn’t much to miss.
While true, they can still give you a hard time. If you simply don’t have one they can’t do much about that.
Seems like a strange way to enforce it, at the user level vs the api client level, unless they’re trying to guard against screen scraper types.
This is by design. They’ve got us arguing about the api price, when their goal was to kill off third party apps and get all users on their app so they can data mine us. And the ridiculous api price is a secondary bonus for them, since AI and LLM companies will gladly pay it to sick up the content on the platform.
Didn’t even know this was a thing, and since I live by multiple monitors, this makes me glad I’ve held off.