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Chrome 0.2 on Windows XP?

As a web developer, I have very little trouble reading the User-Agent header.

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.1.2222.33 Safari/537.36

Sec-CH-UA: "Chrome"; v="74"

Sec-CH-UA-Full-Version: "74.0.3424.124"

Sec-CH-UA-Platform: "macOS"

Sec-CH-UA-Arch: "ARM64"

Sec-CH-Mobile: ?0

Isn't moving this information to a separate Sec-CH-UA headers going to make things _more_ messy? Especially if it's in _addition_ to the frozen User-Agent header?

Aren't we still going to have the issue with needing to fake even the new Sec-CH-UA header?

If we're going to freeze the User-Agent header, that's fine, but don't just move the unfrozen info to a separate header. Now you have 2 problems.

Aren't we just making the problem worse?

Very little trouble? That user agent says it’s Mozilla, then says it’s Windows 10, then says it’s Apple, then says it’s Gecko, then says it’s Chrome, then even though it said it was Windows it goes on to say it’s Safari.

The individual headers, on the other hand, tell you EXACTLY what the system and browser is.

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