Sad news guys. After over 25 years of support, Google has finally discontinued support for Dreamcast web browsers. ☹️
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2025
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Call me crazy but I think that computers volunteer way too much fuggin information when connecting to websites. User agents as we know them shouldn't exist, the website should have no DAMN clue what kind of device I'm using.
I've always been creeped out by stuff like that old form signature that would show what your IP is and stuff, i always hated how the facepunch forum would expose your OS for no real reason and you cant choose not to display it.
So install an extension that masks your user agent
Wait, where was this? I'm drawing a blank.
I think he meant forum signature. Some of them used to allow dynamic ones.
Any site that let you set a forum signature. It didn't really tell the person who had it what your IP is but it'd be a little emoji guy holding a sign that says like "I see you! Your IP is so and so on browser in country"
I had this in my signatures. Those were the fun days.
User agents are a mess that is half blatant lies on a good day. Blame early browsers (*cough* Internet Explorer *cough*) for being outdated or not standards compliant, so websites started serving different code based on reported user agent, leading browsers to start adding random crap to their user string to fool sites into giving them the right code so they'd work properly.