# User Agent Platform Spoofer

> Alter the user agent to spoof a different platform, Windows on \*nix and vice versa.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/user-agent-platform-spoofer](https://chrome-stats.com/d/user-agent-platform-spoofer)

## Overview

- **ID:** `user-agent-platform-spoofer`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Removed
- **Publisher:** defkev
- **Category:** privacy-security
- **Daily users:** 184
- **Weekly downloads:** 33
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (5 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.5.0
- **Last updated:** 2023-04-07
- **First published:** 2018-11-01
- **Size:** 12 KB
- **Data as of:** 2023-09-21
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/user-agent-platform-spoofer/)

## Description

User Agent Platform Spoofer is a Firefox add-on that automatically alters your user agent platform, protecting against malware sites that distribute binaries based on the user agent. Spoofing can be disabled for select domains.

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `webNavigation`
- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension is not longer available in the store

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/user-agent-platform-spoofer)