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   David E. Ross to Mayayana   
   Re: OT: useragent   
   10 Jan 21 18:57:26   
   
   XPost: alt.windows7.general   
   From: not_me@not_there.invalid   
      
   On 1/10/2021 4:44 PM, Mayayana wrote:   
   >   Just had an odd experience. Went to Rottentomatoes   
   > with New Moon on XP, userAgent set to Firefox 80   
   > on Win7. If I go to a site to check my UA it's fine:   
   > FF80 on Win7. But RT is bouncing me to a page saying   
   > I need a new browser, like FF or Chrome. Anyone have   
   > any idea how they might be checking that? There seems   
   > to be something they want to do that isn't working.   
   > They're not going by the UA value.    
      
   They might be testing New Moon's capabilities and not its UA.   
      
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