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_tggb on Nov 2, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Capital One Made Me Different Loan Offers Dependin...

Still checks out, Safari sends the OS in the UA string;

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Safari/533.18.5

vs

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_5; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Safari/533.18.5

sorbus on Nov 3, 2010 [–]

Which isn't the same as the browser being indicative of it, eh? Especially as other browsers send the OS as well.

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