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by taneq 2493 days ago
I was going to say "Great, so Chrome/X.X is going to be the new Mozilla/4.0" but then looked it up and apparently Chrome already reports itself as "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36" so what even is a user agent string for?
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> what even is a user agent string for?

Tracking. Safari actually stopped updating its user agent for this reason.

Great resource, thanks for sharing!
That was brilliant, thanks!