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If your user agent is providing strangers with information you don’t want it to, find a better user agent.

Already doing that, they don't really have a choice.

I still have to deal with the awful UX they've chosen to inflict on everyone by "valuing our privacy by selling our info to over 100 companies", and they can still sell data they collect directly.

Indeed. Blame the regulators that required this, and/or the engineers that have developed a system that gives away your data.

uBlock Origin has lists that block most of these modals

Your comment would be much more persuasive if you provide a concrete actionable suggestion instead of vague handwringing about “finding a better user agent” (and don’t get me started on how “user agent” is basically just an ingroup signal these days)

Let me do it on their behalf:

Firefox + uBlock Origin + EasyList Cookie List

...until Firefox learns to dismiss cookie banners on its own (they're working on it).

“User agent” is a technical term. what ingroup does it signal that you’re part of, by using the term correctly?

The most despicable group of the modern era: folks who expect their own software to act on their own behalf.

Thank you for the snark. I am sure this will work wonders to persuade more people to take their privacy seriously.

I’m quite sure nobody here knows what you’re point you’re trying to make.

english usage aside: you could accuse him of handwaving, but he's not complaining, so his comment is not "handwringing". you are complaining (about his comment) so your comment is closer to handwringing.

"find a better user agent" is not handwringing; "i can't find a better user agent" is handwringing.

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