I've seen similar issues simply by using Linux as my main desktop... some sites just won't work because of it, or seem to filter out "Linux" in the user agent. Which kinda sucks.
Could you give an example? I've been working with a Linux desktop since 2009 and everything seems to work.
Ditto. The only thing I can remember of is Apple Maps. They used to allow only Windows or something? But they relented eventually.
There was some site/app for creating dinner reservations that I had trouble with... I used my phone in the end. I don't recall the specific site. I also saw it a few months ago on a site, where the backend api seemed to be blocking any useragent with linux.
This is one of the reasons why all of my browsers identify as a recent Chrome version. All of those problems just up and disappear. I started doing that when Google claimed (lied) that some of their products no longer support Firefox and would block me from accessing right up until my browser identified itself as Chrome. No bugs, no issues.
If market competition law wasn't reduced to dead ink, lying about your competitor's product, or abusing your dominance in one market to dominate another market, would at minimum carry painful fines.
I agree that lying should be illegal, but “domination” is vague. One could argue (and I would agree) that there’s nothing wrong with dominance if it comes down to just offering a superior product.
And why should the cross-market context be treated differently?