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[โ€“] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

User-Agent is a string of information that browsers use to identify to a site what browser, version, build, etc you are using.

You can download FF extensions that allow you to spoof a different user-agent, making the site think you're instead using Chrome, as an example.