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Comment by pornel

Congratulations Google, you did it! You killed the User-Agent header.

The HTML spec already requires all browsers to report themselves as Netscape in the Netscape-era `navigator` object:

        appCodeName - Must return the string "Mozilla".
        appName - Must return the string "Netscape".
        product - Must return the string "Gecko".
So a few more "oopses" from Google products and the next spec will end up saying:

       User-Agent - Must be equal to the string "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.79"
parent pornel 7 years ago

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