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User agent - Wikipedia

On the Web, a user agent is a software agent responsible for retrieving and facilitating end-user interaction with Web content. This includes all web browsers, such as Google Chrome and Safari, some email clients, standalone download managers like youtube-dl, and other command-line utilities ...

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User-Agent header - Wikipedia

The user agent string format is currently specified by section 10.1.5 of HTTP Semantics. The format of the user agent string in HTTP is a list of product tokens (keywords) with optional comments. For example, if a user's product were called WikiBrowser, their user agent string might be WikiBrowser/1.0 Gecko/1.0. The "most important" product component is listed first. The parts of this string ...

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New User Agent: What It Is & Why It Matters

For example, a website might use the user agent string to determine if you’re on a mobile device. If so, it will serve you the mobile-optimized version of the site, which is designed to load quickly and be easy to navigate on a smaller screen. Similarly, if you’re using an older browser, the website might serve you a simpler version of the site that’s compatible with your browser’s capabilities.

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User-Agent Switcher for Chrome - Chrome Web Store

With this extension, you can quickly and easily switch between user-agent strings. Also, you can set up specific URLs that you want to spoof every time. Please note that this does not provide improved privacy while browsing the Internet and that some sites might have other means to figure out that the browser is not what it pretends to be.

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