On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 19:14 +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
Note that they do the same with Chrome where we have a Fedora user agent, too. The reason why it works is that we put a logic in the user agent extension which removes Fedora from the user agent for the netflix.com domain. We could do the same for Firefox, but I think it's better to solve this with Netflix.
FWIW, in WebKit we have a list of websites that we send custom ("fake") user agents to. E.g. we send Firefox user agents to all Google domains. We do not contact websites to try to get them fixed; it's a waste of time, we just add them to our user agent quirks list. So if Netflix doesn't respond soon, then I strongly suggest patching Firefox similarly. I'm convinced it's impossible to make *any* change to the user agent without breaking websites, so having such a quirks list is going to be important for some other website sooner or later. I'm actually surprised it hasn't caused any problems prior to now.
Michael