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> if perhaps it's sophisticated enough to get past the user agent spoofing

As a part of some browser fingerprinting I have access to at work, there's both commercial and free solutions to determine the actual browser being used.

It's quite easy even if you're just going off of the browser-exposed properties. You just check the values against a prepopulated table. You can see some of such values here: https://amiunique.org/fingerprint

Edit: To follow up, one of the leading fingerprinting libraries just ignores useragent and uses functionality testing as well: https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs/blob/master/s...




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