Google has announced plans today to phase out the usage of user-agent strings in its web browser Chrome. For readers unfamiliar with the term, user-agent (UA) strings are an important part of the modern web and how browsers function. A UA string is a piece of text that browsers send to websites when they initiate a connection. The UA string contains details about the browser type, rendering engine
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