Easily said, until it's your bank, or a government entity, or the electric company, or any of the thousands of other entities that have started blocking Firefox.
Firefox should really camouflage its user agent, or make it trivial to do so.
> Easily said, until it's your bank, or a government entity, or the electric company
Still easily said, since I don't use the websites for any of those things anyway. If it's really important, or involves very sensitive personal information, I'm not doing it on the web.
This is my approach, as well. And if I absolutely had to use their web service? Well, keep the bank in my Chrome bookmarks bar, and only go there when I'm in Chrome. Head on back to Firefox when I'm done doing whatever it is that I needed to do.
I never claimed it was a majority position. I was only expressing my own stance. Whether or not anyone else shares it with me is irrelevant.
> For the rest of us, "Just stop doing it on the web" would be a pretty substantial lifestyle change
It really isn't, though, at least not for most people I know who aren't into tech. It would certainly mean changing some habits, which is often hard, but (at least in the US) it means giving up a relatively small amount of convenience, not a substantial lifestyle change.
I already need to camouflage my user agent because some websites broke on a Linux host running chromium or Firefox. Switching UA to windows fixed this.
I believe it was an analytic bug in Disney+, where they didn't except Linux to be an acceptable OS.
