user agent deprecation

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user agent deprecation
Client Hints

Preparing for Chrome 110 and User-Agent Client Hints

In the next few weeks, one of the biggest changes to the underlying workings of the web in some time...

Ronan Cremin - 20 Jan 2023
3 min read
Client Hints

The Commercial Impact of Client Hints on Open-Source Parsers

We've all read Google's timeline for UA-CH and when changes are going to start coming into effect. But...

Isabel Hughes - 26 Sep 2022
8 min read
Client Hints

DeviceAtlas now supports Client Hints with our new UA-CH Model header service

DeviceAtlas uses all HTTP headers, now including Client Hints headers, to ensure maximum insights into...

Regina De Burca - 17 Aug 2021
3 min read
Device Detection

Postponed: Google’s Attempt to Deprecate and Freeze the User-Agent Header

Google’s attempt to deprecate and freeze the User-Agent header has been postponed until at least 2021....

James Farrelly - 29 Apr 2020
4 min read
Device Detection

User-Agent: Another Plan to Deprecate and Freeze

In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic…and the user agent string already existed. Companies have been...

James Farrelly - 20 Feb 2020
7 min read