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UA Parsing Is Incorrect #354

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
We thought you were using the browser: Safari

You are really using the browser: FireFox

But it was me that went wrong as I realise I had UA overrided to be Safari. But 
the reason I write this complaint is that it doesn't ask you if they are 
correct. It just says  "We think you are using Safari." Maybe tweak the browser 
a bit to pop up after you are done "We think you are using Safari. Is this 
correct?" Also this does reveal a problem. Say I was an IE9 user and I wanted 
to prove it was better than other browsers. I could simply mask it as, say 
chrome, and the speeds of Chrome would be recorded as the speeds of IE9. I'm 
not sure if there is one, but if there is, try to use an alternative to the 
simple UA check as it is easily manipulated. Another browser checker called 
html5test.com says "You are using an unknown browser that imitates Safari 7 on 
Mac." If your website can do something along those lines and not record browser 
imitations, then this problem can easily be fixed.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by charlies...@gmail.com on 27 Jun 2014 at 10:32

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Agree, but not going to fix this. It's a pretty edge case and the fact that we 
use medians for data "fixes" this problem.

Original comment by els...@gmail.com on 27 Jun 2014 at 5:30