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Changing user agent breaks ovi store. I called vodafone they didn't even know what they were talking about and told me to call Nokia. I sent the following e-mail to business customer support. If they don't provide a solution I'll switch networks. I can't stand that bar over there. And there are privacy concerns too.

Hello,
I have a Nokia N900 and a Vodafone Bussiness contract with unlimited data since May 2011.

I started seeing the bytemobile bar (see screenshot below) on my N900 some weeks ago. The default N900 web-browser (MicroB) user agent, and other data collected by the bytemobile bug reporting tool are:

Operator: Bytemobile-Greece
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv7l; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.3pre) Gecko/20100723 Firefox/3.5 Maemo Browser 1.7.4.8 RX-51 N900
Συσκευή: Nokia N900

However the bug reporting tool does not work and redirects to an empty page at http://bugs.bytemobile.com/?id=395903

The N900 browser is fully capable of displaying full webpages and I do not need neither want any compression or formatting for mobile screens. The settings on the bytemobile bar do not allow me to turn off the service completely. Also I have privacy concerns about all my data going through the bytemobile servers.

If I change the user agent to something else the bar goes away and all pages show up normally. I also do not experience this problem when using other mobile browsers (opera, fennec, helium (webkit))

please revert to the old behavior so I can use my smartphone normally again, or I will be forced to switch networks.
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