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Wilfred Hughes

Mar 26, 2020 at 05:43

Woah, Chrome is looking at dropping the user agent entirely! https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/03/chrome-phasing-user-agent/ Feature detection is good practice anyway, so this seems like a push in the right direction.

Chrome Phasing out Support for User Agent

Google announced its decision to drop support for the User-Agent string in its Chrome browser. Instead, Chrome will offer a new API called Client Hints that will give the user greater control over which information is shared with websites.