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Re:Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agen... by Tade0 on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @07:50AM (#22044290)
Last time the UA string was useful to me was to show my SO's uncle that iOS Edge is just a "repackaged and watered down version of Safari".
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Re:Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agen... by saagarjha on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @08:42AM (#22044615)
My user agent is "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_3) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1 Safari/605.1.15". Clearly I'm running a repackaged Firefox browser?
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Re:Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agen... by AgloeDreams on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @10:24AM (#22045555)
In fairness, real (Trident) Edge fakes the Chrome UA. But yeah all iOS browsers are just WebKit.
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