In our fourth chapter of “The problem with User-Agent strings” we learn about some of the privacy advances that browsers have made in the last couple of years. Privacy on the Internet has become much more important over the last decade. All the prominent browser vendors informally agreed to limit the potential user-identifying information in […]| Hello my name is Niels Leenheer
In our third chapter of “The problem with User-Agent strings” we taking a look at the problems you run into when you change something in the User-Agent string. As I mentioned in the previous instalment of this series, the User-Agent string is built upon layers and layers of lies. Sometimes, when I look at a […]| Hello my name is Niels Leenheer
If you regularly check your website’s analytics, you may have noticed something weird in the past year or two. None of your visitors use Windows 11, and nobody upgraded their computer past macOS 10.15 Catalina. That can’t be right. So what is going on? Your analytics packages recognise the browser by looking at the User-Agent […]| Hello my name is Niels Leenheer