This extension is getting bypassed by some websites

[youngunix]

This extension doesn't seem to be effective against a certain websites such as "open-vsx.org. The only way to get this website to recognize the custom useragent is via the Developer Tools on Chrome. This is definitely not a solution nor a workaround that needs to be adopted since it only works on the tab you set it for (as apposed to all the open tabs) and for that session only.

[lvpha]

Hey young man!

How can I see what user-agent https://open-vsx.org/ detects?

[Mozza7]

Unless I'm misunderstanding - it looks like youngunix is right, using firefox's Network tab and loading the site, there's the odd request header that is showing: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:131.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/131.0

Whilst my agent is set to, and on the majority of requests states it is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/110.0.0.0 (Edition Yx 05)

The request which sends the wrong header that i saw (there are more):

GET
https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse.org-common/themes/solstice/public/javascript/vendor/cookieconsent/default.min.js
Status
200
VersionHTTP/2
Transferred14.26 kB (39.43 kB size)
Referrer Policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
DNS ResolutionSystem

I saw a second one: GET https://openvsxorg.blob.core.windows.net/resources/stateful/runme/darwin-arm64/3.9.0/icon.gif

I came across this issue as my Youtube doesn't work with this enabled - and I could see some requests with my actual user agent being sent.

Blacklist mode: cloudflare.com Disable spoofing: gitlab.com/users/sign_in

Everything else is as default except I have it set to show debug in console, but it doesn't seem to do that. I'm not sure if any of that's helpful or if it's expected or what.