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A tip.

Since the beginning, web browsers have sent a description of themselves with every page: the User-Agent. For nearly as long web devs have been begged to not use the UA to change stuff per browser, and for all that time devs did it anyway 1/4

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The User-Agent header is an incomprehensible melange of techie info, historical accidents, and lies. It used to look something like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 13_5) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.5 Safari/605.1.15

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However, the user agent is now mostly frozen in all modern browsers. You can still, normally, get a version number, and which browser you're in, but that's basically all. This protects people's privacy, because it's none of your business which browser I use.
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To get all the detail of how modern browsers use the user agent, check out Learn Privacy at https://web.dev/learn/privacy/fingerprinting/#only-rely-on-the-user-agent-string-for-coarse-information.
And if you like that and want me to write things for you, get in touch! 4/4

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