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Here's my user agent on chrome: >Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 There are at

Here's my user agent on chrome: >Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 There are at least five lies here. * It isn't made by Mozilla * It doesn't use WebKit * It doesn't use KHTML * It isn't safari * That isn't even my version of chrome, presumably it hides the minor/patch versions for privacy reasons. Lying in your user agent in order to make the internet work is a practice that is almost as old as user agents. Your browser is almost certainly doing it right now to look at this comment.

Findecanor 2y ago
> Lying in your user agent in order to make the internet work is a practice that is almost as old as user agents. Twenty years ago, I set up a web proxy on my Linux PC at home to change the User Agent because I was tired of getting popups about my web browser (Opera) not being Mozilla or Internet Explorer. It even contained the text "Shut the F up and follow w3c standards!" at first, until I realised that sites could use that to track me.