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From my understanding, it allows a website to check if you’re running a Chromium browser, and block your access to the site or to features of the site if you aren’t
Well then I am a chromium browser. At least as long you need to think that.
What technology they are using I can't fake on a Firefox?
This is why google wanted to deprecate the User-Agent header.
god that'll make it impossible to do a bunch of frontend work for anything but their browser. which is another reason they want to do it, i'm sure
They deprecated it as in it always is set to the same value regardless of the chrome version.