Browser detection is rarely done through User Agent lookup anymore. Nowadays we determine browser through feature detection.
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In my honest and probably very controversial opinion, Lemmy is not more private than say using Reddit.
Not an expert, but I am a self hoster.
Not everything is but yes, some things can be seen. Your saved posts are only visible to your local instance admins not every admin. Your subscriptions are visible to your local admin as well the admin of the community can see you are subscribed. Your DMs are visible to your local admins as well as the recipient's admins. Your votes and comments will be visible to all federated admins. If you report a post, that report is visible to your local admins, the community's mods and admins, and the reported person's instance admins.
Say no more, I'm sold
DM: It's about sending a message
This dude over here checking the engines 🤦
"These people were outrageous," Kemp said. There was "no safety testing, no analysis of the product to see what was in it." He said that the person who developed the water treatment process for Real Water bought the titanium tubes "from some Russian guy in the 80s" and spent four to five months making alkaline waters in his garage, working until he had a formula that didn't make him vomit or have diarrhea.
JFC
Wouldn't it make a difference in cases where the nameserver and host are not the same entity?
Lemmy.world is NOT defederated from lemmy.ml. the above user is completely wrong.
This is easily verifiable by going to https://lemmy.world/instances and scroll to the bottom to see which ones are blocked
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I tend to agree. I think there's little need as a developer to go that extra mile for accurate browser detection without UA unless it's for fingerprinting. Most feature sets are supported and where it isn't you have a polyfil or whatever shim to make it work. So in the case of fingerprinting you try not to rely fully on anything the user can alter easily.