[jraph]

> I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that "Akamai is whining" about this

I largely overstated that. Of course. However, my feeling throughout the entire post is that it was like they were announcing bad news about which they were not too overly about this because they based their optimization strategy on this. I was like "the world told you so".

[nicj]

As the author of the post... :) We don't see this as bad news, quite the opposite in fact. Feature detection (if you're running JavaScript), Client Hints (if you're running code at the edge), etc are all a lot better to use for logic decisions. We've been making changes to rely less on the UA header directly for our Akamai products.

Our goal of the post was more around educating our customers, who may not be aware of these changes, and these changes can affect their custom logic, if they depend on the UA.