[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 39617] [GTK] Google sites do not like WebKitGTK+

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39617





--- Comment #47 from Oliver Hunt <oliver at apple.com>  2010-09-10 11:23:04 PST ---
(In reply to comment #45)
> Seems you should have a runtime way to disable this.  Otherwise how will you ever check if it can be removed?  Unless you want this spoofing to be a permanent part of WebKitGtk...

Alternatively google could have fixed this and it wouldn't have been needed -- you commented in the bug in june saying you thought it was a bad idea so had to be aware of it, and i recall telling you or someone else from google about the problem and yet nothing seems to have been done to correct it.

UA checks are bad, google engineers have given tech talks saying UA sniffing is bad. And yet there is code from google that is a) doing UA sniffing and b) blocking other browsers built on the same engine as safari and chrome...

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