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Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions (www.androidpolice.com)
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[–] rolling_resistance@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Browsers have user-agent identifiers, websites can see what browser and what version you use.

They are mostly used to run browser-dependent code to avoid some things breaking in some browsers.