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Can User Agent Switcher be made to work at all ?

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JoeJupa
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Nothing this addon claims to do works. It alleges new annoying ads at Drudge can be blocked. Just get a User Agent Switcher list by Googling.... NOT. The links you can find are all bogus.

The docs for the lists are sloppily and seem to assume you are a UAS developer and totally understand everything.

Is there ONE PLACE with a valid download and CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS that say, Download this, install it here ?

Sloppy addon. Amateurish. I'm in IT and would be fired for turning in work like UAS. Please do not refer me to TechPatterns. Their stuff doesn't work.

Nothing this addon claims to do works. It alleges new annoying ads at Drudge can be blocked. Just get a User Agent Switcher list by Googling.... NOT. The links you can find are all bogus. The docs for the lists are sloppily and seem to assume you are a UAS developer and totally understand everything. Is there ONE PLACE with a valid download and CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS that say, Download this, install it here ? Sloppy addon. Amateurish. I'm in IT and would be fired for turning in work like UAS. Please do not refer me to TechPatterns. Their stuff doesn't work.

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If you want to block ads on a web page then you need a content blocking extension.

uBlock Origin:

An extension that modifies/spoofs the user agent is merely meant to make a website believe that you use another browser.

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If you want to block ads on a web page then you need a content blocking extension.

uBlock Origin:

An extension that modifies/spoofs the user agent is merely meant to make a website believe that you use another browser.

JoeJupa
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Got it. If you saw a mushroom cloud in the direction of GA that was me blowing up User Agent Switcher - with malice aforethought...

UBlock seems like there sophisticated algorithms behind it.