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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Here are some instructions in case you are inclined to give it a try. You know, for research purposes. You can fill the blank in with this:

 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36    

The first part of the Chrome user agent being "Mozilla" always amuses me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I read a historical explanation of user agents and its just about the most retarded, convoluted thing ever. Definitely amusing though.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

God I'm sorry man I read it a while back, just hadn't thought about how stupid and useless they are now. I vaguely recall how it all got messed up and all the major browsers go intertwined, and it went back to Netscape and shit. I'll try to find it, was a really great simple breakdown. Was left thinking how stupid and useless it was though.

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