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   Mayayana to G6JPG@255soft.uk   
   Re: OT: useragent   
   11 Jan 21 09:01:13   
   
   XPost: alt.windows7.general   
   From: mayayana@invalid.nospam   
      
   "J. P. Gilliver (John)"  wrote   
      
   | If you go there with Javascript turned off, does it "work" - whatever   
   | that means? Both in your choice of OS/browser/UA, and in some other   
   | browser where it _does_ work with JS on?   
      
     It works without script but then the page is a mess.   
   And I tried going to other sites to check the UA (a search   
   at duckduckgo and a webpage specializing in reporting   
   UA) with script enabled. They both report FF80/Win7.   
   So the issue doesn't seem to be script. That's what's   
   got me curious. There seems to be some kind of functionality   
   they're checking for.   
      
     I checked the source and saw they were calling to   
   qualitrics.com for something. So I put that in the HOSTS file   
   and tried again. That had no effect. One thing I haven't   
   checked is WebGL. I don't know much about it but seem   
   to remember security issues, so I typically disable it, figuring   
   that I'm not going to miss anything relevant. But it's conceivable   
   a site could build most of their GUI with WebGL, on the spot,   
   and test for that.   
      
      Webpage code is getting so convoluted these days that it's   
   no longer adequate to understand HTML and CSS in order to see   
   what a page is doing. Much of it is obfuscated script creating   
   the page client-side.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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