> Mozilla/5.0 (Linux, Android 11) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Mobile Safari/537.36
Chrome/91 would be from 2021 [1]. Normal operations from Chrome would be
to automatically update so Brave is an outlier here which does not match
the goals of the Brave project. If this is an updated version of Brave,
please file an issue with Brave as this string should be kept updated.
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_web_browser#Web_browsers_by_year
imperva recommends blocking all Chrome user-agents below 100 on page 34
of their 2025 Bad Bot Report [2] and based on the data I am seeing that
is sound advice.
[2]
https://www.imperva.com/resources/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/reports/2025-Bad-Bot-Report.pdf
Best,
Michael
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On 11/29/25 20:13, Bruno Haible via Discussions among Savannah Hackers,
open subscription wrote:
Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
I was explaining why the Falkon (and presumably
also Brave) developers did not make their browsers distinguishable from
Chrome.
Well, lists.gnu.org and savannah.gnu.org *do* distinguish Brave and Chrome.
This is precisely what I'm complaining about.
I'm guessing that this distinction is based on the User-Agent string.
But maybe it is actually something else in the HTTP request?
Bruno
