• ClassifiedPancake
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      5 days ago

      User agents cannot be fully trusted anymore since every browser puts every possible word in it so they are not excluded by anything.

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        4 days ago

        Well, some browsers have made User-Agent strings useless. Technically, it’s like this:

        Firefox: “Mozilla based browser, Gecko engine, Firefox.”

        Chromium: “We’re totally a Mozilla based browser we swear. Also KHTML, which is like Gecko basically. I guess also a bit like WebKit. Has anyone ever heard of those? No? OK. Fine, here’s some actual information then…”