When a website wants to identify your browser and what sort of computer or device you’re browsing from, the first place they’ll turn to is the User Agent string. In a surprising move, Google’s ...

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 ...

Because some internet websites unfairly block browsers from accessing their services, starting with Vivaldi 2.10, released today, the Vivaldi browser plans to disguise itself as Chrome to allow users ...

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. A user agent is a ...

A client program that is used to access servers on a network, typically the Internet. It may refer to an email client (see messaging system), a Web browser, search engine spider or any other program ...

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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 the ...

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. This was ...

The change will make it harder for ad companies to track individuals online. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Google is planning ...

A Web browser that identifies itself as a more popular browser. When a user requests a Web page, many websites check the type of browser being used in order to deliver a page specialized to render ...