Note that our default UA contains "Ubuntu 14.04 like Android 4.4", so we’re not actually pretending to be Android, just hinting that we have similar capabilities, which leaves the door open to content producers to do a proper detection.
For comparison, Firefox OS chose a deliberately short and clean default UA string (one that doesn’t pretend to be who it isn’t), and they’re having to do a lot of (largely volunteer) work to try and evangelise major websites to recognize their UA, while at the same time making heavy use of the override mechanism to send a fake UA (that most of the time contains an Android token anyway). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1328183 Title: User-Agent string results in poor UX on web To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webbrowser-app/+bug/1328183/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
