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tomscharbach
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Apr 24, 2019

Edge Chromium Switches User Agents

I found the  https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/the-new-microsoft-edge-sometimes-impersonates-other-browsers/  fascinating:   "The new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge will impersonate ot...
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tomscharbach
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Apr 24, 2019

HotCakeX   I think that it is a smart move, too.   Because Edge Chromium is not a released browser, UA switching is probably the best (maybe the only) way to tune Edge Chromium for specific websites.

 

The method now used is cumbersome, though, dependent on pointing Edge Chromium to a manual list of domains and policies setting UA for each of the domains where Edge Chromium reports as either Edge (e.g. domain":"netflix.com","applied_policy":"EdgeUA") or Chrome (e.g. "domain":"facebook.com","applied_policy":"ChromeUA").

 

Whether that method will be replaced/superseded with something less manual as development moves forward, I don't know. 

 

I don't have much occasion to switch UA's, but Firefox has a User-Agent Switcher add-on that I've used a few times when working in the Linux environment.  It is primarily a developer tool, though, not for the likes of me.