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User agents cannot be fully trusted anymore since every browser puts every possible word in it so they are not excluded by anything.
Well, some browsers have made User-Agent strings useless. Technically, it's like this:
Firefox: "Mozilla based browser, Gecko engine, Firefox."
Chromium: "We're totally a Mozilla based browser we swear. Also KHTML, which is like Gecko basically. I guess also a bit like WebKit. Has anyone ever heard of those? No? OK. Fine, here's some actual information then..."