Pretty much every incompatibility-related issue is solved by spoofing the user agent and removing the "snap Chromium/<version>" part, simply claiming to be normal Chrome. There is not really any point in differentiating between Chromium and Chrome, but it breaks many websites, and it's also a nasty feature for browser fingerprinting.
Identifying as Chromium will only annoy users and have them install the proprietary Chrome browser instead, so "Netflix works" and "they can join their meeting". In order to work around such issues, Vivaldi has already decided to just use Chrome's user agent, because otherwise things broke for no obvious reasons: https://vivaldi.com/blog/user-agent-changes/ Moreover, Google has decided to semi-deprecate user agents altogether in upcoming Chrome releases: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-to-phase-out-user-agent-strings-in-chrome/ https://9to5google.com/2020/01/14/google-deprecate-chrome-user-agent-string-privacy/ So with these upcoming changes in Chrome, can Chromium in Ubuntu please follow suit, and no longer differentiate from whatever string Google will use for Chrome? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1868117 Title: [snap] Adapt chromium user agent to avoid "not supported browser" Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Currently some websites like netflix.com and web.whatsapp.com does not recognize chromium Ubuntu as chrome because of the different user agent. We need to find a way like vivaldi to avoid such problems for casual users. Current snap chromium UA : Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) snap Chromium/80.0.3987.132 Chrome/80.0.3987.132 Safari/537.36 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1868117/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
