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InfiniteRand on Nov 22, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Guidance to developers affected by effort to block...

This is kind-of funny requirement given the history of user-agent strings being incredibly convoluted.

I mean Chrome doesn't clearly identify itself as Chrome, it still identifies itself as Apple Webkit

trickstra on Nov 22, 2020 [–]

Also given Google's history of sending corrupted version of pages to Firefox useragents.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7whdv4/googlecom_i... https://androidforums.com/threads/problems-with-firefox-user... https://www.ghacks.net/2018/07/25/google-making-youtube-slow... ... and many more

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