Reviews for Random User-Agent (Switcher)
Random User-Agent (Switcher) by Paramtamtam
26 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13755321, 5 days agoonly working User-Agent for most sites.
*but github broken. - Rated 4 out of 5by Ugarov, 9 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18939959, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by PJ, 2 years agoI really like the extension, it works great. The problem is, when im on my android phone and it chooses to spoof my device as a tablet, websites show the tablet/desktop version even though i choose only androids. I understand that it would compromise some of my privacy, but i would really appreciate if you would add a switch where it would only spoof my device as a mobile android phone, as it would solve a convenience issue.
Thank you! - Rated 4 out of 5by LemonMint, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17472147, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17658663, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Jack Hannon, 4 years agoWorks very well, but wish it had the ability to set a custom user agent for a specific website. Meaning that user agent was only used on that site, and all other sites are not effected. At least i can't get it to work like this, maybe I'm doing something wrong though.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoYep, I'm still not implemented that feature. But you're able to try to implement it by yourself and send me a PR on GitHub! - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17342390, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17193178, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Danyhel, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by temy, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16559495, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16531395, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16319144, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Faith Faith Faith, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14676320, 8 years agoI love this extension as it handles the job of altering UA automatically (set up and forget plugin), but now for whatever reason it doesn't save domain preferences so I have to disable it on custom domains (like youtube else the page won't show) every time. I would like to put 5 stars if this issue is corrected, for me its still the best plugin for that application.
EDIT : I think its just the exception list that is reset; maybe after update of the plugin (autoupdate is on, I will disable it to check) - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14528261, 8 years agoI would continue to use Random User-Agent, however, I had to uninstall due to its breaking of Youtube. With RUA enabled on Firefox, YT's homepage yields only grayed-out slots where the videos should be shown -- obviously I can't interact with anything, let alone watch a video.
This error persists across the most recent versions of both Firefox and Waterfox. I had to disable all of my extensions and turn them on, one-by-one, and in the end, only RUA has this effect on Youtube.
Will gladly re-install in the future if this problem is resolved. - Rated 4 out of 5by Akilrajas, 8 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Janetli, 8 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12635333, 8 years agoThis is a good plugin, but for some reason when I pick "Chrome" in the settings, I get Safari instead of Chrome. And the plugin apparently doesn't change window.navigator.platform , I don't know if it lacks permissions to be able to do this, but it would be an important feature for spoofing the OS
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14033039, 8 years agoMain problem is the user agent isn't per-site. There are several user agent switchers that work per site, and several that randomize, but im still looking for one that does both to actually fill the role.
From a "user agent tracking" perspective, random spoofing per site prevents user agent based tracking (though of course there are other methods) within a single session, without this feature it somewhat defeats the point as if you're on two sites within the same random cycle you'll still be user agent matched. - Rated 4 out of 5by Nick G., 9 years agoDoes not remember the settings if "Synchronize between browsers" is on.
The author knows about the problem and promised to fix it.