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Re:History of the browser user-agent string (2008) by daxterspeed on Saturday September 28, 2019 @07:33AM (#21099786)
YouTube could likely use Service Workers in modern browsers to determine what bundle to load. If so then our modern browsers could simply send [browser]/[major version] (eg. Google Chrome/78 or perhaps Blink/78) while old browsers continue to send their legacy mess.
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