I made Anubis, a lightweight, open-source Web Application Firewall designed to block automated bot attacks without frustrating real users. Anubis uses techniques like TLS fingerprinting and JavaScript proof of work to keep your site safe while staying flexible, fast, and easy to deploy.
well if you want to get into it, i think the last browser that didn’t have mozilla in the useragent was internet explorer, which had “trident/9.0” or something. every other browser on the market is based on the old KDE browser Konqueror, which had “khtml, like gecko” in it. when that didn’t work they just added “mozilla” to it. then apple took that codebase and added “safari”, chrome took that codebase and added “chrome”, etc etc etc. compatibility problems just kept compounding on every browser based on khtml until we got to the point where microsoft edge’s current user agent is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36Edg/134.0.0.
even firefox has had to give in to this: my useragent is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101Firefox/140.0 even though the version of gecko in firefox 140 is v125, from 2022.
well if you want to get into it, i think the last browser that didn’t have mozilla in the useragent was internet explorer, which had “trident/9.0” or something. every other browser on the market is based on the old KDE browser Konqueror, which had “khtml, like gecko” in it. when that didn’t work they just added “mozilla” to it. then apple took that codebase and added “safari”, chrome took that codebase and added “chrome”, etc etc etc. compatibility problems just kept compounding on every browser based on khtml until we got to the point where microsoft edge’s current user agent is
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/134.0.0.even firefox has had to give in to this: my useragent is
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.0even though the version of gecko in firefox 140 is v125, from 2022.