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Re:Starting January 4 Google will block sign-ins from embedd... by freshhawk on Thursday November 19, 2020 @07:52PM (#25156245)
I think a lot of people are forgetting that Google saying "the browser must not try to impersonate another browser" is a fairly funny part in itself.

Everyone remembers the User-Agent for Chrome starts with "Mozilla/5.0" right? It has always impersonated another browser for compatibility reasons. For so long that we take this for granted now.

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Re:Starting January 4 Google will block sign-ins from embedd... by chrisweekly on Thursday November 19, 2020 @11:29PM (#25157316)
Yes, this! Here's my favorite send-up of the history of the User-Agent header (hard to believe it was already 12 years ago(!) when it first made me laugh)

https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/comment-pa...

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