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Even market-dominant companies do this. Windows ships a bunch of backward compatibility patches. Graphics card drivers (especially Nvidia) wholesale replace shaders in popular games.



Webkit does this.

Examples:

- https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/pa...

- https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/pl...


> DuckDuckGo discriminates against WebKitGTK's standard user agent by returning an HTTP 400 Bad Request error when loading every search result.

I guess they only want spyware browsers on DDG.


Thing is, Opera had to do this specifically to work around stuff like UA-based degradation of service on YouTube etc.




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