Mobile layouts for some websites can be pretty atrocious. Thankfully, Chrome for Android will allow you to view the full site at the click of a button.
Perhaps one of the most polarizing experiences of browsing the Internet with mobile or tablet devices is automatic redirection to mobile "friendly" layouts, which usually either aren’t so “friendly” or easy on the eyes. Certain sites go so far as to prevent your ability to switch to regular site view by redirecting you immediately back to the mobile site.
Fortunately, Google understands such a plight and has implemented a new feature in the latest version of Chrome for Android, which prevents sites from automatically redirecting Android users to mobile versions of sites. Chrome does this by altering the browser’s User Agent String, which in turn alters what platform websites think you’re visiting with. As a result, you’re able to load sites in desktop view that would otherwise insist on you viewing the site in the mobile layout at a simple touch of a button.
Sadly for those who don’t have the latest Android devices and have been left behind from the Ice Cream Sandwich update, Chrome for Android is currently only available on Android 4.0 (note: the stock browser in ICS also has the ability to request for a desktop version of a website). Everyone else will have to hang their heads sadly and use a web browser alternative.
Chrome users may want to think about that before enabling such features....
under settings. it is on mobile or might have been mini forget which
They are not tethering though...what form of website you load isn't what determines if you're charged for tethering or not.
I've been able to disable mobile view on my HTC EVO 3D since the day I got it, I can even change the User Agent. This is the stock android browser, and I'm not sure how this changes anything aside adding a button that changes the User Agent for you rather than typing it in.
You're suggesting mobile companies check the user agent header of every HTTP request going over their networks to determine if someone is tethering or not? Not being funny that that sounds a bit of an unreliable method. They might just be checking their email when they tether.