> banners that say "our website does not work with your browser, please switch to Chrome"
Which in practice means "switch to using a Firefox extension which fakes looking like Chrome, and just to selected shitty sites like ours".
Which in practice means "switch to using a Firefox extension which fakes looking like Chrome, and just to selected shitty sites like ours".
The Chrome user agent starts with Mozilla/5.0, ends with Safari, claims to be like Gecko, based on KHTML, and somewhere in there is the string Chrome.
That was done exactly because people were trying to gate which browsers could or couldn't see their page by name, instead of by missing functionality.
The web is becoming a monopoly anyway... a contradiction to what web once meant.
Non-technical people do follow recommendations like installing an extension to help with a problem. Especially if they see the same recommendation from multiple sources, and testimonials as to its efficacy.