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User agent - Wikipedia

On the Web, a user agent is a software agent responsible for retrieving and facilitating end-user interaction with Web content. [1] This includes all web browsers, such as Google Chrome and Safari, some email clients, standalone download managers like youtube-dl, and other command-line utilities like cURL.

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What Is a User Agent? A 2025 Guide for Developers, Scrapers, and Teste

Spoofing user agents carries both legal and ethical risks. Responsible use means maintaining consistency, transparency, and avoiding the impersonation of protected services. Introduction A user agent is a text string sent by your browser or script during an HTTP request to identify the client's software and operating environment to the server.

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User-Agent Switcher for Chrome - Chrome Web Store

With this extension, you can quickly and easily switch between user-agent strings. Also, you can set up specific URLs that you want to spoof every time. Please note that this does not provide improved privacy while browsing the Internet and that some sites might have other means to figure out that the browser is not what it pretends to be.

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Introducing A2UI: An open project for agent-driven interfaces - Google Developers Blog

A2UI is an open-source project, complete with a format optimized for representing updateable, agent-generated UIs and an initial set of renderers, that allows agents to generate or populate rich user interfaces, so they can be displayed in different host applications, rendered by a range of UI frameworks such as Lit, Angular, or Flutter (with more to come).

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User-Agent Switcher and Manager - Chrome Web Store

Usage example: You can alter your user-agent string to indicate you?re on a mobile device if you prefer seeing mobile versions of sites so they load quicker. -- This extension allows you to spoof your browser "user-agent" string to a custom designation, making it impossible for websites to know specific details about your browsing arrangement.

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User-Agent Switcher – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Why is the extension file so large (4 MiB) compared to others? In order to provide almost perfect emulation of User-Agent values, User Agent-Switcher bundles a stripped-down version of BrowsCap. This allows us to derive all relevant JavaScript navigator.* browser/OS identification values from just a single value: The User-Agent value you enter (and a bit of magic behind the scenes).

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User-Agent targeting | Real-time Bidding | Google for Developers

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Sec-Ch-Ua: ".Not/A)Brand";v="99", "Google Chrome";v="103", "Chromium";v="103" Sec-Ch-Ua-Arch: x86 Sec-Ch-Ua-Full-Version: 103.0.5060.134 Sec-Ch-Ua-Mobile: ?0 Sec-Ch-Ua-Platform: Windows Sec-Ch-Ua-Platform-Version: 15.0.0 · In cases where at least low entropy Client Hints are included, the UserAgent will be populated based on the contents of those headers even if User-Agent headers are present.

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HTTP Headers - User-Agent - GeeksforGeeks

The HTTP header User-Agent is a request header that sends a characteristic string to web servers, allowing them to identify the Operating System (OS) and browser of the client making the request. Every time your browser connects to a website, it includes the User-Agent field in the HTTP header. This information helps websites serve content tailored to different browsers and operating systems ...

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What is my user agent

Your user agent is a string that web servers use to identify your browser and optimize content delivery. Learn what a user agent is, how to troubleshoot browser issues, and see your user agent details on this site.

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