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Re:Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agen... by jmcs on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @07:57AM (#22044339)
Maybe after people stop using the user agent for stupid reasons it can be made useful again. User agents should be stuff like "Firefox 71.0" or "Chrome 79.0.3945", not "Mozilla but really AppleWebKit disguised as KHTML, but no really I'm Chrome but maybe I'm Safari"
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Re:Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agen... by HorstG on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @10:05AM (#22045309)
Yes, but unfortunately using the user agent for only non-stupid reasons is a postcondition for the hell freezing over.
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