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Oddly enough, they simply don't do that. IDK why, but they don't. Also, there is a bit more to browser integrity check than just the user-agent. But, yeah. You'd be surprise how often I saw attacks get mitigated that were using some obviously bad UA. The attack themselves seemed sophisticated enough, but the UA was still a 12 version old IE UA string or "1337 browser 2000" or something dumb like that.



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