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by GuB-42 365 days ago
Google would have to pay a lot of licensing fees then...

> Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

It is Mozilla (nope), Linux (yes, in a sense), Android (yes) AppleWebKit (not Apple and not WebKit), KHTML (nope), Gecko (nope), Chrome (yes), Mobile (yes), Safari (nope).

So maybe they owe something to Mozilla, Apple and KDE.

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To be fair Blink engine started as a fork of Apple's WebKit engine. Although I wouldn't be suprised if none of the WebKit code is present on Chromium now...
And to be fair on the topic of being fair, Apple's WebKit started as a fork of KHTML. So the string makes some sense.