If my favorite websites stop working with Firefox, they won't be my favorite websites anymore. I'll just stop using them instead.
Easily said, until it's your bank, or a government entity, or the electric company, or any of the thousands of other entities that have started blocking Firefox.
Firefox should really camouflage its user agent, or make it trivial to do so.
If the overwhelming majority of users submits to Google, then Google has the power to erode privacy for everyone.
Still easily said, since I don't use the websites for any of those things anyway. If it's really important, or involves very sensitive personal information, I'm not doing it on the web.
> or make it trivial to do so.
There are extensions that make this very trivial.
It's definitely a position you can take, but that's a very minority position among web users these days.
For the rest of us, "Just stop doing it on the web" would be a pretty substantial lifestyle change and, practically speaking, not worth it.
Although, I rarely have to do anything with the bank that would require any online or offline process beyond using an ATM.
So no, that wouldn't really be a reason for me to stop using Firefox.
Mozilla employee made an easy user agent switcher called Chrome Mask
https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1eic7bj/chroe_mask...
I believe it was an analytic bug in Disney+, where they didn't except Linux to be an acceptable OS.
My government certainly won’t do that, they have a strong open data background.
