That's already the case with the client hints. The UA string is soon to be deprecated, Chrome has even introduced a number of reductions in the past year.
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This is the beginning of the end for the UA string. As more and more UA reductions are deployed, the UA hints will become more useful and eventually depreciate the UA string entirely.
For instance for the 2008 olympics many blocked sites were opened up, and conversely they tighten everything up before every National People's Congress elections.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toad_worship_(Chinese_internet...
searching "膜蛤" on baidu.com yields zero results.
Not everyone who travels does it for "status" (in fact I would say that people who do that are a vocal minority)
It also means other things like "ice", but "sick" is the first thing that comes to mind, and in China this is especially a big deal due to superstitions. Naming things is very important here.
amusing anecdote: I remember a discussion about someone who wanted to name his shop 森林木 (three trees symbol, two trees symbol, one tree symbol) and everyone told him it was a bad idea and it would fail because the trees where getting fewer and fewer and that this name was an omen of bankruptcy, and if anything he should put it in the opposite order. (He ended up choosing a different name entirely)
Bing is a really bad name, even tho this had probably nothing to do with it's relative failure
I learned english at 22, german at 25, and mandarin at 28, It took several years of daily studying for each language, but I did it, and I was able to use these languages in professional environments. Plenty of people do it in my experience.
and I wasn't even close to exist yet