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Re:User-agent string changes by userbinator on Saturday November 22, 2014 @11:54AM (#8645953)
Is it possible to come up with some method that discloses information about the user agent which can be used for analytical purposes but cannot be used to change the bahaviour of a web page?

It's called "browser fingerprinting": https://panopticlick.eff.org/

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