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olliej
on March 28, 2019
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Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “...
Well, the next best thing is what webkit is doing (
https://webkit.org/blog/8042/release-notes-for-safari-techno...
) by freezing the user agent.
So as time goes by the user agent becomes increasingly homogenous and so, less useful for tracking.
saagarjha
on March 28, 2019
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I believe this change was rolled back, since my User Agent is "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_5) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.2 Safari/605.1.15".
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So as time goes by the user agent becomes increasingly homogenous and so, less useful for tracking.