Facebook reports login from "Mobile Safari on iPhone"

Bug #1238736 reported by Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Online Accounts setup for Ubuntu Touch
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

When you log into Facebook from a new device, they send you an email. This is in order to alert you to any unauthorized attempts to login to your account. When you login to Facebook via ubuntu-system-settings-online-accounts, you receive an email claiming: "Facebook login from Mobile Safari on iPhone." This is potentially very confusing to a user who does not own an iPhone.

I'm not sure where in the stack this bug should be filed. Most likely the root issue is in qtwebkit's user agent string, but I imagine that it the current string was chosen with good reason. So this might have to be worked around somewhere else. The Ubuntu Touch reports browser it's user agent as "Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; Mobile) Webkit/537.21"

Revision history for this message
Alberto Mardegan (mardy) wrote :

Since we switched to Oxide, it says "Android on Android". But I guess that there's nothing we can do about it, until Facebook recognizes our browser.

Alberto Mardegan (mardy)
Changed in ubuntu-system-settings-online-accounts:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
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