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Interesting. We don't use UA to track customers, but it has been invaluable information for trying specific bugs. Eg, twice in the past 2 months, I've had to
by Humphrey 7y ago
Interesting. We don't use UA to track customers, but it has been invaluable information for trying specific bugs. Eg, twice in the past 2 months, I've had to fix weird bugs that didn't make sense. The only way I was able to solve them was to look for patterns in which browsers and versions those who reported the bugs were using. Both turned out to be to do different iOS Safari cookie related bugs that only occurred in specific versions. Without logging the UA there would have been no way I would have been able to discover those bugs and create workarounds for those iphone users.
I'm all for preventing tracking, but I can't imagine a time where all browsers behavior so similarly that we won't have to write workarounds for browser bugs and differences. As a developer I can't imagine caring about Edgium vs Chrome, but it's important to know what the underlying engines are.