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Randy Webb
VK said the following on 4/22/2006 8:52 AM:
You can rest assured they didn't change it based on this thread.
No, it's time to stop browser detecting, object detecting instead, and
then it is a moot issue *what* the UA string says.
Ref. Should UA string spoofing be treated as a trademark violation?
As a support for my point of view expressed in this thread, where Opera
was mentioned among the most "nasty offenders". Either they read this
and agreed on it, or they came to the same conclusion independently,
but:
You can rest assured they didn't change it based on this thread.
<http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/900b1/> (freshly listed
on opera.com):
Changelog : HTTP
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Changed default UserAgent string to identify as Opera.
....
P.S. Now it's time to take care of Safari and Konqueror ;-)
No, it's time to stop browser detecting, object detecting instead, and
then it is a moot issue *what* the UA string says.