As someone who remembers the Browser Wars… Fuck this idea, in strongest possible terms.
Discrimination on personal decisions such as user agent software choice is antithetical to user freedoms, open standards and net/protocol neutrality.
If something has undesirable behaviors - detect those and filter on what’s actually happening, not how something is branded. It always should be “we don’t tolerate this behavior”, never “we don’t serve your kind here”.
Discrimination on personal decisions such as user agent software choice is antithetical to user freedoms, open standards and net/protocol neutrality.
If something has undesirable behaviors - detect those and filter on what’s actually happening, not how something is branded. It always should be “we don’t tolerate this behavior”, never “we don’t serve your kind here”.