Comment on Did YouTube just disable video playback for people using adblockers or is it just me?

• splendoruranium@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  How do you know? Statistics reported by websites… which are recording user agent strings?

  If you randomly stopped people in the streets and asked them what a user agent was, you’d get a certain percentage of folks that give you the correct answer. That percentage is the upper ceiling for any possible error margin that websites recording user strings have in attributing those strings to actual browsers, since nobody unaware of that term will know how or be interested in changing their user agent.

  Do you think it likely that this percentage is going to be in any way, shape or form… impactful, considering that most people won’t be able to tell you what a browser is? 😜

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  • sexy_peach@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s my reasoning as well

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