Google is dropping user-agents please update your plugin

vdlp / oc-redirect-plugin

Advanced redirect plugin for October CMS.

https://octobercms.com/plugin/vdlp-redirect

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Google is dropping user-agents please update your plugin #42

Closed summercms closed 4 years ago

summercms commented 4 years ago

I'm sorry to share bad news, Google is going to be dropping user-agents this year.

For more details see here: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/-2JIRNMWJ7s

The following package you are using: https://github.com/vdlp/oc-redirect-plugin/blob/e4f7085f90486e32fafafa0d5b63aaec6aa86295/composer.json#L17

Will stop working later this year.

Kind regards,

Ayumi.

ghost commented 4 years ago

You are quick as the wind @ayumi-cloud ;) we will put it on the roadmap!

adrenth commented 4 years ago

Thank you for sharing! But I don't see any urgent danger yet... ;-)

Since we're using this package only for detecting if a visitor is a crawler or not. Crawlers will identify themselves one way or another. Nowadays with the User-Agent string and in the far future it will be something else we can detect.

We'll keep an eye on it.