Vivaldi to change user-agent string to Chrome due to unfair blocking Many websites are blocking users from accessing their services, so Vivaldi will disguise itself as Chrome going forward.

Google is planning on phasing out user-string agents in the Chrome browser. The change would improve individuals' privacy by making it harder for ad peddlers to 'fingerprint' users online.

Google announced that starting in December Google will update Google’s user agent to represent the version of Chrome that GoogleBot is running. It is important to update any code you may have ...

Google is testing whether changing the Chrome user agent to three-digit 'Chrome/100' will cause loss of functionality on websites that are expecting a two digit version number.