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For some reason, I always enjoy reading about UA history. There’s rarely anything new (for me, partially because I lived through some of those earlier changes),
by Semaphor 5y ago
For some reason, I always enjoy reading about UA history. There’s rarely anything new (for me, partially because I lived through some of those earlier changes), but I’m still entertained.
This had a new tidbit in the final section, though: They are working on a new XR browser [0] and history is repeating itself.
Only tangentially related, but when I checked the mobile browser stats for Germany, I found out about Instabridge which seems to be some ad-tech wifi password sharing app and seems close (7.75 % - 10.58 % to overtaking Samsung Internet as 3rd biggest browser. It appears as if almost all their users came from Safari.
[0]: https://wolvic.com/ https://wolvic.com/
[1]: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/germany https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/germa...
- banaetrhoow 5y agoYou might be interested in this IMC 2017 paper: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2017/papers/imc17-final253.pdf https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2017/papers/imc17-final2... There was a crazy "android anomaly of 2015" that nobody else seems to have noticed. The Microsoft XML file with domain-UA pairs is among the most insane ideas I have ever seen. Both are described in this paper.
- Semaphor 5y agoHah, the android anomaly was fun, despite probably being benign :D The Microsoft UA thing wasn’t actually news to me, they’ve always had crazy hacks like that.