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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
The home page for my apartment complex is *really* broken in Firefox. Actually unusable. They know too because there's a popup saying only edge, chrome, and opera are supported.


I also had a vendor make an update to a website that completely broke the rendering of the page in Firefox to the point of being unusable. I reported it and the response I got back was "Only chrome is supported" but they still fixed it.


So there are good reasons to filter by user agents, it's just those reasons are usually caused by poor decisions elsewhere