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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
There are some reasons why you'd want to filter by user agents (like telling those IE 7 users to fuck off), but I'm curious as to what is the point of only allowing browsers on a whitelisting basis. Is it a liability thing? "We can't guarantee our site works on x browser, so to avoid issues we'll block everything we haven't tested" or something like that?
gpt
You would be surprised by the bug reports I've seen. I don't work on the web, but it worries me the amount of people who will go far out of their way to try and contact the maintainers of free and open source software just because they're using it wrong. In company where you're paid to write software and get shit given to you for having "bugs" in your site actually caused by an out of date browser you might ad well get heavy handed. Many web developers are stupid, anyway.