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Rewolverine
Rewolverine

Reputation: 375

Limiting site access to Mobile Phones

We are thinking of limiting our site access to mobile phones for some user trials in which we want to enforce trial users to use Mobile Phones. From my limited research on user strings, there is no good way of doing this since different browsers identify themselves differently and we might inadvertently block out a few users.

What does the community think? Good idea? Bad idea?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 88

Answers (1)

Jon Kirkman
Jon Kirkman

Reputation: 475

Whether this is a good or bad idea depends on your goals.

You're right that UserAgent strings are easily spoofed so it's not at all reliable but does that really matter for your trials?

Is inadvertently blocking a few users (those with wrong or unrecognized UA strings) really relevant when, by design, your blocking out the vast majority of users (anyone using a desktop browser)?

Upvotes: 1

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