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The user agent string is harmful in general. Any new browser should just copy the chrome user agent.


That's why Google introduced this secure key thingy so that you'd have to claim to be Chrome in a way that Google hopes is either legally binding by itself or a copyright infringement of the keying algorithm.

I don't remember what it was called and I don't use Chrome to test it. It sends a header with a long hex string that supposedly proves it's real Chrome.




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