Every time Chrome loads a website, it quietly introduces itself as several other browsers first. It’s a leftover from the early web, when sites decided what to show based on which browser they thought you were using.
The video above explains which four browsers Chrome still pretends to be, and why it can’t stop.
Dinsan Francis is the founder of Chrome Story, which he started in 2009 — the same year Google launched Chrome. He has covered the Chrome browser and Chromebook ecosystem for over 15 years and has used Chromebooks as his primary computing device since 2010. He’s always on the bleeding edge, running the Canary build of both Chrome and ChromeOS as daily drivers.
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