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An external image showing your user-agent and the total "hit count"

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It says unknown (mobile?) client for me too, using Sync with Bluetooth and location enabled and Play Store Services installed.

Whoever wrote that image tracking over-hyped it?

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The user-agent detection definitely isn’t great, this was just meant as a quick proof of concept for anyone curios.

It successfully identified Firefox when I checked it from the browser. Maybe some of the apps don’t identify themselves in the useragent string?

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