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Why do different sites report Vivaldi's user-agent as different strings?
Because the browser sends different User-Agent strings to these websites. There's no real detection going on – the website literally just gets the User-Agent field as a string from an HTTP request ...
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Is it Possible to spoof browser user agent in Windows XP to get web.whatsapp.com running?
You must upgrade your operating system whether you wish to or not. I am posting this from XP Pro using Chrome.
But the highest version of Chrome (using it here) is V49.
Whatsapp requires V60 and that ...
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How to get Windows NT version via command line
You can use the wmic command in a syntax of wmic os get version to return the NT version number and the OS build number—use an administrator elevated command prompt if needed.
You can also use the ...
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Microsoft Edge User Agent string
So Why does it have Mozilla, Chrome and Safari, and not just Edge in
it?
Webpage designers are simply lazy, and they attempt to block visitors from using specific browsers, because they want to use ...
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How to MODIFY rather than REPLACE the Vivaldi User-agent header?
You need an extension for this.
One of the first on Google is
Requestly,
which is free for basic usage.
The Requestly documentation article on
Modify User Agent
can get you started.
I have never used ...
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Microsoft Edge User Agent string
Edge pretended to be Chrome, and Chrome pretended to be Safari, and Safari pretended to be Mozilla. And Edge used EdgeHTML but revealed it not, and Chrome used Blink, but revealed it not, but Chrome ...
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How do Access Points determine the client's OS?
There are several ways of doing it and usually the router uses a combination of 1 to 3 of the more simple variants. The router/AP usually doesn't have the CPU horsepower to do something exhaustive ...
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Chrome extension to change User Agent only in current tab
All such chrome extensions available in store use chrome.webRequest API to modify request headers like User-Agent.
I will suggest to take a look on Requestly chrome extension where you are allowed to ...
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Why are agents/browsers allowed to change URL without actually navigating to that path?
Webapps have long been capable of changing the page's contents entirely using just JavaScript. For example, in Twitter you could navigate from main timeline to a profile to a specific tweet entirely ...
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How to make Firefox prefer images to HTML?
You can do this in the advanced configuration available in Firefox.
Enter about:config in the address bar and accept the warning when prompted.
In the search box put "accept"
You should ...
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In Firefox, my general.useragent.override is not showing up correctly on "what's my user agent" sites
While setting general.useragent.override manually might work in some versions of Firefox, it might no longer be respected in the current version (on this PC, v. 121.0, that setting is not in about:...
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How do websites detect my browser
The way the sites know where the browser is coming from is a string provided through HTTP in a header element called "user agent".
The User-Agent request header is a characteristic string ...
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How do websites detect my browser
It is hard to have a definitive answer. Each Web browser has a distinctive signature. The Edge browser sends something like:
GET https://www.whatismybrowser.com HTTP/1.1
Host: www.whatismybrowser.com:...
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2 different users accessing internet banking from mobile browser at different time but IP address and user agent string is exactly the same
but carrying the same IP address
Yes, pretty much all home Internet connections use NAT for sharing just 1 IPv4 address between all devices in that home. Many smaller business connections will have ...
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Is it Possible to spoof browser user agent in Windows XP to get web.whatsapp.com running?
You are lucky, on 2023 as far as you have SP3 on your Windows XP you can use a supported fork (Mypal68) of Firefox 68 that allows to run Whatsapp web.
Though Whatsapp only requires a FF above 60 and ...
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Is it Possible to spoof browser user agent in Windows XP to get web.whatsapp.com running?
If you wish to stay with XP, a solution that will work for you is to install
an Android emulator. The emulator will act as an Android phone running on Windows.
The steps to follow are:
Visit the ...
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Declared User Agent being overridden
There is no need for that, here is your answer with multiple options.
First "it seems" this is impossible. I tried myself and searched everywhere and found people who were also trying with ...
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Is the browser's useragent useless?
The only time I've used the user-agent string was back i the late 90s when codign javascript - Netscape (now Firefox) and IE had very different supported DOMs, etc so sniffing which was in-use was "...
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Change Firefox user agent permanently without Add-ons
According to this article Deploying Firefox in an enterprise environment, first create a autoconfig.js file in defaults\perf folder Firefox program directory i.e. C:\Program Files\Firefox\defaults\...
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How can html5test.com detect the exact name of browsers?
As hinted at, this information is all encoded into the browser string.
The part you may be glossing over is the "SM-G920F" which is the model number for a Galaxy S6 smartphone.
The Dolphin Browser ...
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Construct intermediate proxy to change user-agent of http requests
I agreed Seth it broken by design.
But as crazy bypass: ZAP can be used to modify HTTP Requests/Replies and make fake SSL certificates on demand.
ZAP is pentest and debug proxy.
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Analyzing HTTP traffic
Other than the User Agent string, HTTP doesn't tell you much about the client process. If all you have is this one packet capture, you might be out of luck.
If you were doing this debugging live, ...
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Quickly swap user agents in Chrome?
There are many User-Agent Switchers available in Chrome Store. Now a days, you won't even need a Chrome Extension to switch the user agents in Chrome.
There are a couple of features in Chrome Dev ...
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How does http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ get its long Recent Referrals list?
Your web browser does not pass such information to web sites. It's just a list of other people's referrals. I can tell that because I have literally never visited most of the sites in that list. The (...
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How to turn the user agent into a secure_user_agent?
I FOUND THE ANSWER!!!!!
Ctrl+Shift+I
Click on the menu button next to "x" button
Click show console drawer (if its already shown just leave it like that)
Click the console drawer menu button (next to ...
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