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Comment by michael_h | Hacker News Reader

I'm not sure that you would know. This is my user agent string:

  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)

...running the current version of Opera. Most other people I know that use opera do the same thing to get around silly sites that won't even try to display their content.

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It's moves like that which mean Opera has dug its own grave of irrelevancy. They should have given you the tools to enable spoofing on a per-domain basis only, not browser-wide.

They did give their users those tools. Site prefs have been a feature of Opera for a decade or so.

If it's one browser that have a shit ton of per domain/site options it is Opera.

edit: Also, what is up with the throwing around of the word "irrelevancy" on HN lately. Usually in snarky contexts as well.

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