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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In 2012, Mozilla developers explained why they chose not to include
"Android" in their mobile UA string.
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/User_Agent> Summary: Sites that mistakenly
serve desktop-formatted pages are less likely to result in support
calls, and are easier to address with evangelism, than sites that
reasonably promote Android apps to a browser that claims to be running
on Android. And that evangelizing sites to "Send your mobile version to
any browser with 'Mobi' in its UA string" helps not just Firefox but
every other mobile browser (for example, Ubuntu's).

If bug 1466427 has not been fixed by the time this bug is resolved, it
may save time to fix them together.

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Title:
  User-Agent string results in poor UX on web

Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The User-Agent string for the browser is similar enough to the Android
  browser User-Agent, that it creates a poor experience when browsing
  the web on an Ubuntu phone. An inordinately large number of web sites
  persistently advertise to "install our app" instead of providing the
  best web experience; an app which cannot be installed.

  This is exacerbated by the pervasiveness of webapps on Ubuntu phone,
  which simply embed the mobile web site with webapp-container, and
  still result in seeing such advertisements, despite the fact that the
  "app" on Ubuntu is already installed, and the Android apps being
  advertised are simply not installable.

  Having all the big web sites telling users of Ubuntu that they should
  be using Android instead, is not very good for the user experience at
  all.

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