In a surprising move, Google's Chromium team has submitted a new proposal that includes deprecating the User Agent string starting in Chrome 81.

Google is planning to gradually phase out the current implementation of user-agent strings, the metadata provided by the browser whenever you connect to a website. This includes ...

Vivaldi will do this by modifying its default user-agent (UA) string to the UA string used by Chrome. A UA string is a piece of text that browsers send to websites when they initiate a connection.

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 ...

To enhance the privacy of its users and reduce the complexity of updating User-Agent strings, Google Chrome plans to move to a new system that web sites can use to identify information about their ...

Google is resuming work on reducing the granularity of information presented in user-agent strings on its Chrome browser, it said today — picking up an effort it put on pause last year, during ...

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Google is testing whether changing the Chrome user agent to three-digit 'Chrome/100' will cause loss of functionality on websites that are expecting a two digit version number.

Google has updated the user agent string for the AdsBot Mobile Web crawler. Google said if you hard-coded the old user agent string, you will want to make sure to update that in your code.

That's because the User-Agent strings for Android browsers generally identify themselves as some version of Linux ("Linux; Android 11; HD1905," for example).