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Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] idunnololz@lemmy.world 18 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Its kind of funny but thats how user agents have been for a while. It's historically just been browsers pretending to be one another.

https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

[โ€“] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Yeah and that's why it's one of the basics of the basics you learn as a software developer that you shouldn't sniff the useragent, because it's unreliable and causes issues. Yet all big webpages (especially those pretending to be a software) do it, causing issues. Even just trimming the useragent string (xorigin.trimming.policy) makes "advanced services" like a webshop unusable.

Just don't do useragent sniffing, do feature detection instead.