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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

It seems the webbrowser app identifies itself as an Android browser.
This causes a lot of sites not to be usable on Ubuntu and redirecting
the user to the android app store. For example Evernote, Whatsap, g+,
Nokia here maps, king.com and many many more:

Example with evernote:
http://people.canonical.com/~alan/screenshots/device-2015-03-16-141033.png

The browser should have its own user string, not claiming to be an
android device.

** Affects: webbrowser-app
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Description changed:

  It seems the webbrowser app identifies itself as an Android browser.
  This causes a lot of sites not to be usable on Ubuntu and redirecting
  the user to the android app store. For example Evernote, Whatsap, g+,
  Nokia here maps, king.com and many many more:
  
  Example with evernote:
  http://people.canonical.com/~alan/screenshots/device-2015-03-16-141033.png
  
- The browser should have it's own user string, not claiming to be an
+ The browser should have its own user string, not claiming to be an
  android device.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1432669

Title:
  user agent is misleading

Status in Web Browser App:
  New

Bug description:
  It seems the webbrowser app identifies itself as an Android browser.
  This causes a lot of sites not to be usable on Ubuntu and redirecting
  the user to the android app store. For example Evernote, Whatsap, g+,
  Nokia here maps, king.com and many many more:

  Example with evernote:
  http://people.canonical.com/~alan/screenshots/device-2015-03-16-141033.png

  The browser should have its own user string, not claiming to be an
  android device.

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