And the official answer from WhatsApp: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-discuss/MbfH- OZGbLc/4JhhGlg-CgAJ
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1808853 Title: Buggy WhatsApp misdetects Chromium with Ubuntu's patched useragent Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Starting about a week ago, https://web.whatsapp.com stopped working with Ubuntu's Chromium, it suggests to install Google Chrome. If change useragent from userAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/70.0.3538.110 Chrome/70.0.3538.110 Safari/537.36 to userAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.110 Safari/537.36 or rebuild chromium-browser without chromium_useragent.patch, than this piece of buggy shit starts to work with Chromium I tried to reach WhatsApp monkeys by writing to [email protected], but did not get an answer from human. Sorry, but I hate WhatsApp. I've made this bug just to inform you about the problems that the patched useragent may cause and to help other people solve the problem. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1808853/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
