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An Anonymous Coward writes:

I was reading wikipedia using firefox for android and it annoyingly still served the mobile page when "request desktop site" was selected. This is bad because there seems to be no way to look at the talk page from the mobile version of the site, there is often interesting discussion there. In fact, I consider being able to read how the information on the page was arrived at to be a major benefit of wikipedia. I tried some add-ons (eg Phony), but none seemed to work on wikipedia.

Are there any browsers or add-ons that let me totally hide the fact I am using a mobile device? Since Phony didn't work, they may be grabbing information beyond the useragent such as the screen size. Besides any privacy aspects, sharing this information is beginning to needlessly cause hassles and becoming a liability. So how do I avoid sharing this information with web developers who incorrectly think they know what is best for me?

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