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by _xgw 3299 days ago
It's more than just the browser, it's the exact, EXACT version of the browser which can be very revealing if you're not updating your browser (almost) every day. For example: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.85 Safari/537.36
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jcranmer 3299 days ago
I can't speak for Chrome or Safari, but Firefox's UA is pretty sparse:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0

This a totally custom, self-compiled build--and there is absolutely no reflection of that in the UA. Also note that the Mozilla/5.0 and Gecko/20100101 fields are frozen and are only there because sites break if they're not there.

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gruez 3299 days ago
>It's more than just the browser, it's the exact, EXACT version of the browser which can be very revealing if you're not updating your browser (almost) every day

Is there a reason why you don't have auto-update enabled in your browser?

Also, auto-updaters don't apply updates right away, so as long as you're not a few versions behind the latest, you will blend into the crowd.

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