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[Vicamo Yang <vicamo.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Gecko_user_agent_string_reference

Maybe any string contains "Mobile" would be enough?
FirefoxOS uses "Mobile" without the OS part, so probably Ubuntu Phone can
have "Ubuntu; Mobile" instead.

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Vincent JOBARD <vinzjobard@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think that comes because oxyde, the webbroser use an Android-Chrome
> > user-agent.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Winael
> >
> >
> > Le lun. 1 juin 2015 08:59, Gareth France <gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx> a
> écrit :
> >>
> >> I'm curious to know about how the world sees Ubuntu. I recently went to
> >> check my emails using the gmail app only to find myself logged out. I
> didn't
> >> think much of it and entered my details. It let me in but the result
> was an
> >> email being sent to me containing the following:
> >>
> >> Hi Gareth,Your Google Account gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx was just used to
> >> sign in on Android.
> >>
> >> So why does Google think Ubuntu is Android? Is this how the web as a
> whole
> >> sees our phones? Is there not a way to report back a Linux or Ubuntu?
>
>
> Hi Gareth, Vincent,
>
> Aside from the minor confusion (oxide is the web rendering engine, not
> the browser itself), this is mostly correct. The webbrowser
> application advertises a user-agent string that contains an "Android"
> token, which causes most websites and webapps to serve
> android-specific content.
> Without this trick, most websites and webapps would serve content that
> is not adapted for mobile/touch.
>
> See https://launchpad.net/bugs/1328183 for details about the rationale
> for choosing such a UA string.
>
> HTH,
>
>  Olivier
>
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