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Make an app then. You/your company made the choice to use web technologies and take advantage of their benefits.

Users own their computers and their browser (user agent) is for serving them. Not you.

You have no right to be telling a users computer exactly what to do. Do that on your own servers.

The state of tracking and telemetry is insane enough already with chrome gearing up to cut the legs out from ad blocking.

Plus, even if you're lucky enough to have your wishes with the browser, it doesn't affect anyone serious anyway. They will scrape outside of chrome, as they already do and have always done.



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