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when your browser fetches a web page, it sends a "User Agent string", which is a description of what browser it is. the server can then choose to send something different by looking at this string.Permalink Look on archive.org
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of course, if you're making a new browser, you want all the servers already out there to give you the same stuff they give to all the existing browsersLook on archive.org
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why is why Microsoft Edge describes itself like this: "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.74 Safari/537.36 Edg/79.0.309.43"Permalink Look on archive.org
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"Edg" isn't as typo, by the way - it's to distinguish it from the other version of Edge that used to exist, but works differentlyPermalink Look on archive.org
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anyway: computersPermalink Look on archive.org
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oh, also a similar thing happens when CPUs are asked to identify themselves. or would if Intel didn't threaten to sue. @danluu/1203450367515615233Permalink Look on archive.org