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In a nutshell, to my best understanding; User-Agent is divulged publicly with all requests to all sites, so no protections exist around using it, because it is
by floatingatoll 7y ago
In a nutshell, to my best understanding;
User-Agent is divulged publicly with all requests to all sites, so no protections exist around using it, because it is freely offered up by the user without requiring consent.
Client Hints have to be specifically requested by the remote website, which demonstrates intent to collect data, and thus falls under data collection laws.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> User-Agent is divulged publicly with all requests to all sites, so no protections exist around using it, because it is freely offered up by the user without requiring consent. This seems like an argument you'd lose if your website failed to respond to requests that were missing the User-Agent.
- floatingatoll 7y agoPerhaps, but I know of no case law precedence one way or the other with respect to User-Agent.