this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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Afaik, almost every browser uses "Mozilla/5.0" as part of the user agent, Mozilla mentions it as well in developer docs about User agents, it's a historical compatibility thing apparently.
Interesting, thanks!
Guess it's the same kinda thing as amd64 on Intel lol
it's even stupider, it's more like why there is no windows 9 because of programs doing stuff like
if os.name.startswith("windows 9") then print("this program is not compatible with windows 98") endLol