Teams also doesn’t support multiple “work” accounts, so I had to boot up a laptop to accept the call. 🤷

  • @waiglEnglish
    61•8 months ago

    Sidenote:

    HTTP user agents have become absolutely bonkers over the years.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•8 months ago

      There’s an API called “client hits” that’s replacing user-agent. Some of the hints will require the user to provide permission for the site to use them, since they could be used for fingerprinting.

      Major browsers (Chrome and I thibk Firefox) are freezing the user-agent. The only thing that’ll be changing in user agents is the major browser version. Other parts including platform will be static. Chrome on Windows will always report itself as Windows 10 for example. https://www.chromium.org/updates/ua-reduction/

      • @jayboneEnglish
        2•8 months ago

        Oh so like how other browsers reported Windows NT for decades… cool.

    • @eek2121English
      -19•8 months ago

      Not really. The example listed above is perfectly readable.

      Knowing the versions of webkit, browser version, etc. is important due to inconsistencies, new features, mossing features, and deprecated features. Sure it can be faked, but that is on the end user.

      • @waiglEnglish
        29•8 months ago

        There is more information in there that isn’t actually true and only supposed to trick some old web servers into treating it a certain way than there is actually correct information,

        It mentions three different browsers, only one of which is actually true, and three different rendering engines, none of which is actually what’s used.

      • @[email protected]English
        9•8 months ago

        Chrome doesn’t use Webkit, and the referenced Webkit version is probably 10 years old at this point. The user agent is full of stuff for backwards compatibility. That’s why it’s being deprecated in favour of a better API (client hints)