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Re:Tell HN: Skype on web does not support Firefox by taneq on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @08:04AM (#20818917)
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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Re:Tell HN: Skype on web does not support Firefox by Nextgrid on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @08:06AM (#20818928)
> what even is a user agent string for?

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

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Re:Tell HN: Skype on web does not support Firefox by dTal on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @10:02AM (#20819829)
Obligatory classic: https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
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Re:Tell HN: Skype on web does not support Firefox by michaelanckaert on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @05:04PM (#20823956)
Great resource, thanks for sharing!
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Re:Tell HN: Skype on web does not support Firefox by taneq on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @10:04PM (#20826020)
That was brilliant, thanks!
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