Us: "The web is too bloated"

Also us: "Why, yes, `Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14; Pixel 6 Pro Build/UP1A.231005.007; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/117.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36 Home Assistant/2023.10.2-11484 (Android 14; Pixel 6 Pro)` is a perfectly reasonable User-Agent to submit, no way that could be shortened"

@larsmb It‘s funny to think about that point in time (one can probably even track the change in the code) when someone decided to put in “like Gecko“. Probably somewhat cognizant of the theoretical implications, but without any foreknowledge of the size to which this mess would grow. I like how it is still in there - as part of the sediments.

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@nblr @larsmb Never understood that BS. Why would the Webserver/the Website ever care about what client _connects_? If there's a need to exchange capabilities, there should be a proper header or API for that ...

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