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User Agents
Useful when doing stealthy VAPT, or when trying to view a website as another device. "User-agent" is the header in the HTTP Request that says what device you are viewing the server as. Ie What browser, what OS, what version, even region sometimes. Etc. This allows the server to change content dependng on what your device is.
1. Mediapartners-Google
> Used by Google Ads for scraping content that should be shown in advertisements
2. Chrome on Mac: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 11_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36
> Used by Google Chrome if run on a Macintosh OSX device like a Macbook etc
3. AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps
> Similar to Mediapartners but more tailored towards mobile apps
4. Firefox on Windows 10: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0
> Used by Mozilla Firefox if run in a Windows 10 Machine
5. iPad: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0 Safari/605.1.15
> Used by Safari browser if run by an iPad device
6. Chrome on Windows 10 (very common): Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36
> Used by Google Chrome if run on Windows 10 device, one of the most common user agents to date
7. Mozilla/5.0
> Used by some scripts/automated programs
8. Amazon Kindle: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; en-US) AppleWebKit/528.5+ (KHTML, like Gecko, Safari/528.5+) Version/4.0 Kindle/3.0 (screen 600x800; rotate)
> Used by Amazon Kindle, which is labelled as a Linux device