Dear Lazyweb, is there a page where I can paste a user agent and it will tell me, "that's probably fake"?
E.g., "Chrome x.y.z never existed" or "that version was Android TV, not macOS" or "that's 10 years old".
Yes, I am aware that libraries exist to generate plausible UAs and many bots use them. But most bots don't try that hard, and I'd like to manually ask the question, "is this low-hanging fruit?"
(whatismybrowser dot com is not the answer.)
jwz /
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2024-07-25 16:51:39
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