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		hsbauauvhabzb 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You Don't Need Anubis Can you explain what you mean by this? Why Mozilla specifically and not WebKit or similar?

gucci-on-fleek 5 days ago [–]

Due to weird historical reasons [0] [1], every modern browser's User-Agent starts with "Mozilla/5.0", even if they have nothing to do with Firefox.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_header#Format_for_h...

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...

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