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> Oh my god can we please kill the user agent string already? Browser makers tried to do that by providing feature detection, but the weight of legacy code and
by AnonC 6y ago
> Oh my god can we please kill the user agent string already?
Browser makers tried to do that by providing feature detection, but the weight of legacy code and developers already used to using the user agent strings has made killing it impossible.
Edit: As pointed out in another comment here, it seems like Google is killing it (or planning to). [1]
[1]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-to-phase-out-user-agent-strings-in-chrome/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-to-phase-out-user-agent...