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by immibis 526 days ago
Even market-dominant companies do this. Windows ships a bunch of backward compatibility patches. Graphics card drivers (especially Nvidia) wholesale replace shaders in popular games.
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darknavi 526 days ago
Webkit does this.

Examples:

- https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/pa...

- https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/pl...

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immibis 525 days ago
> DuckDuckGo discriminates against WebKitGTK's standard user agent by returning an HTTP 400 Bad Request error when loading every search result.

I guess they only want spyware browsers on DDG.

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int_19h 525 days ago
Thing is, Opera had to do this specifically to work around stuff like UA-based degradation of service on YouTube etc.
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