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Re:Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey by wongarsu on Monday May 06, 2019 @08:11AM (#19838640)
After you figured out the browser, it will also always be possible to find out the browser version, because newer versions implement features not present in older versions. Then you just need a hint to the OS (at least distuingishing Linux from Windows seems easy) and you have reconstructed the entire User Agent string.
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Re:Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey by amelius on Monday May 06, 2019 @09:59AM (#19839431)
> it will also always be possible to find out the browser version, because newer versions implement features not present in older versions

True, but most browsers have an auto-update scheme, so basically everybody is on the same version at a given time (by approximation).

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