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This code might reduce Chrome user-agents
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// Only match Chrome user-agents we know we can reduce | |
// https://www.chromium.org/updates/ua-reduction#TOC-Reduced-User-Agent-String-Reference | |
const chromeUAs = /^Mozilla\/5\.0 \(((?<platform>Lin|Win|Mac|X11; C|X11; L)+[^\)]+)\) AppleWebKit\/537.36 \(KHTML, like Gecko\) Chrome\/(?<major>\d+)[\d\.]+(?<mobile>[ Mobile]*) Safari\/537\.36$/; | |
const matched = chromeUAs.exec(navigator.userAgent); | |
if (matched) { | |
// Map detected platform to reduced value | |
const unifiedPlatform = { | |
'Lin': 'Linux; Android 10; K', | |
'Win': 'Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64', | |
'Mac': 'Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7', | |
'X11; C': 'X11; CrOS x86_64', | |
'X11; L': 'X11; Linux x86_64', | |
}; | |
// Override navigator.userAgent with the reduced string | |
Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'userAgent', { | |
value: `Mozilla/5.0 (${unifiedPlatform[matched.groups.platform]}) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/${matched.groups.major}.0.0.0${matched.groups.mobile} Safari/537.36`, | |
writable: false, | |
configurable: true | |
}); | |
} |
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