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[Matthew Exon <mat.ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the discussion of this issue.  I came here from Bug #1506836,
learned something, and now I've just finished fixing the code on my own
site to handle "mobi" and "like android" tokens correctly :-)  I've also
submitted a feature request to LastPass.

To broaden the discussion slightly, could anyone comment on the
likelihood of any of the following things being implemented?  They would
all provide a (perhaps unfriendly) workaround in the situation where a
particular website refuses to play ball but a user has a desperate need
for it to work correctly:

* Provide a button or something in the browser to explicitly switch UA string (like Sogou does to handle Chinese websites that require IE6 brokenness)
* Support an "about:debug" page or similar that allows a custom UA string to be typed in
* Allow the user to edit the override list on their phone (even just a text file editable in the terminal would do)
* Support plugins in the browser that would allow third-party developers to fix the problem for you

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1328183

Title:
  User-Agent string results in poor UX on web

Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The User-Agent string for the browser is similar enough to the Android
  browser User-Agent, that it creates a poor experience when browsing
  the web on an Ubuntu phone. An inordinately large number of web sites
  persistently advertise to "install our app" instead of providing the
  best web experience; an app which cannot be installed.

  This is exacerbated by the pervasiveness of webapps on Ubuntu phone,
  which simply embed the mobile web site with webapp-container, and
  still result in seeing such advertisements, despite the fact that the
  "app" on Ubuntu is already installed, and the Android apps being
  advertised are simply not installable.

  Having all the big web sites telling users of Ubuntu that they should
  be using Android instead, is not very good for the user experience at
  all.

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