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How many people actually change their operating system user agent though—especially to linux? it’s gotta be less than 1%
by EasyMark 2y ago
How many people actually change their operating system user agent though—especially to linux? it’s gotta be less than 1%
- luyu_wu 2y agoI'm one of thosr who have, Microsoft office webapps love to misbehave with Linux useragents! I know Linux friends who spoof useragents for privacy reasons as well!
- jsnell 2y agoIt's not that normal users are doing it in significant numbers. It's that other stakeholders are. For example browser makers do that. Safari on iPads claims in the UA to be OS X on Intel, not iOS on ARM. Another common use is for bots that are trying to hide they are bots. That might be malicious scrapers, non-malicious scrapers probing for whether changing the UA also changes the page content, or benign bots like software running phishing checks against links sent in chats or emails. It's not enough for these bots to just hide who they are, they want to look like a real browser.