Google will freeze and unify the User Agent string

[C45HC0W]

In order to increase privacy online (thats what google says) they want to get rid off the user agent string.
I still couldnt figure out if this will simplify botting or make it more complicated because now it is harder(?) to fake the useragent?

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-dev/-2JIRNMWJ7s/yHe4tQNLCgAJ
https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/

 

[h3y4w]

In order to increase privacy online (thats what google says) they want to get rid off the user agent string.
I still couldnt figure out if this will simplify botting or make it more complicated because now it is harder(?) to fake the useragent?

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-dev/-2JIRNMWJ7s/yHe4tQNLCgAJ
https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/

I read a little from that 2nd link it looks like it might be worse depending on what libraries/APIs or software you are using. At least for the original user agent you could fabricate everything. Here it says:

"User agents MAY return the empty string or a fictitious value for full version, platform architecture or model, for privacy, compatibility, or other reasons. "

From a quick glance it seems weird they didn't mention you could fabricate brand or significant version number too.