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Re:Number of people on government websites now by NV2k9JtLJpba5BN on Thursday January 20, 2022 @02:37AM (#30005920)
`totals.browser` contains user agents (or something similar).

Why are there (personal?) email addresses in there as well? Who sets that as their user agent?

Re:Number of people on government websites now by keewee7 on Thursday January 20, 2022 @03:04AM (#30006112)
>Why are there (personal?) email addresses in there as well? Who sets that as their user agent?

Might be some programming exercise. It's a common network programming exercise to build a HTTP client using bare sockets. But they don't look like student email addresses.

Re:Number of people on government websites now by mxuribe on Thursday January 20, 2022 @10:56AM (#30010503)
I think for respectful web scraping it is common/preferred etiquette to include some contact info.
Re:Number of people on government websites now by NavinF on Thursday January 20, 2022 @03:41AM (#30006377)
Some APIs require contact info in the user agent header. For example, all calls to the reddit API are supposed to contain the dev’s reddit /u/username in the user agent.