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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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An external image showing your user-agent and the total "hit count"

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I'll be damned. I tried this from three different platforms and you've nailed it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm using Firefox on Mac and it thought I was on windows. Still a big issue though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It said I'm on Mac OS X, but that's wrong. It's been macOS for some years now. /s

It still makes me wanna cry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I just use whatever the user_agents Python library gives me as user_agent.os.family.

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