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by krono 1322 days ago
The level of detail that will be available to servers will not be reduced at all, but rather repackaged and split up into separate headers that the server can individually request. The information contained in these headers will likely be more accurate because it's claimed to be safer this way.

Whereas today your browser sends the messy but relatively detailed user agent string automatically with each request, after this change it will still send the messy user agent string with each request but with a tiny bit less detail.

Google's writers are pretty good at polishing turds, got to give them that!