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   Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 18:50:50 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

   And thus Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended to be Gecko, and all browsers pretended to be Mozilla, and Chrome called itself Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13, and the user agent string was a complete mess, and near useless, and everyone pretended to be everyone else, and confusion abounded.

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

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     Richard (m0rpk@mastodon.radio)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 20:20:50 JST Richard

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     @ryanc UA strings are like Game of Thrones lineages:

     “Mozilla, fifth of their name, born to MSIE and Windows NT in the 6.2nd year of their reign; of fair complexion and compatible rendering. Parent to two children, their names being Gecko and Webkit. Died in their 24th year of wounds sustained in a corporate merger.”

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     dram🎀 (dramforever@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 06:23:39 JST dram🎀

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     (source: random stackoverflow post i found)

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     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 06:23:39 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

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     • dram🎀

     @dramforever that looks like a genuine edge UA to me but I can't be bothered to check

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     dram🎀 (dramforever@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 06:23:40 JST dram🎀

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     @ryanc someone need update this with ms edge which claims to be
     Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.10136

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     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 06:24:46 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

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     • dram🎀

     @dramforever the thing is, edge 12-18 was it's own browser engine and the Microsoft rage quit that and decided to just patch chromium

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     dram🎀 (dramforever@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 06:50:40 JST dram🎀

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     @ryanc and it was called Edg or EdgA or EdgiOS
     https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/web-platform/user-agent-guidance

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     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 06:50:40 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

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     • dram🎀

     @dramforever EdgiOS is Safari with a skin

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     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 06:52:18 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

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     • dram🎀

     @dramforever I love browsers, they're utterly fucked and fun to play with.

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     dram🎀 (dramforever@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 06:52:19 JST dram🎀

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     @ryanc i love browsers they definitely work well and work as i expect them to