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Comment by SanjayUttam | Hacker News Reader

I'd be curious to see what happens if you change your user-agent header...

When you change it to something else (I did to Android 2.3, WebOS) it worked. When accessing with a WP7 user agent string ("Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows Phone OS 7.5; Trident/5.0; IEMobile/9.0; SAMSUNG; SGH-i917)" I was redirected to www.google.com.

Looks like an innocent mistake, however. Or they decided they wouldn't support IEMobile 9.

Wait, how does that look like an innocent mistake? It used to work, they changed some code, and now they're blocking users with a specific useragent.

It's Google. Of course it's an INNOCENT mistake. If Microsoft had done it, it would be a mortal sin against humanity.

Google has even come out and said that mobile Google Maps is only for WebKit engines. The open web is no longer about web standards apparently -- it's about one specific rendering engine.

It goes even further. At the top of my google docs spreadsheets there is now some scary language saying I should upgrade to chrome from my unsupported (but perfectly functional) browser.

meanwhile, some people are using lynx :p

Those horrible notifications that reappear every time you refresh the page are my very own source of annoyance with google. I have a 23" display and I like zooming into all pages to see text clearer. Now, google is the only internet company that decided to show me a big red box with "Your browser's current zoom setting is not fully supported".

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