Hey guys,

Just realised that my previous email might have been blocked due to the 
attachments.
I moved them 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/iat2zoq3ive772m/UserAgent-doctrine.PNG?dl=0 and 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o2nm97k0eiwzqyc/UserAgent-Facebook.PNG?dl=0

Are you aware of the UserAgent blacklist problem?

Cheers,
Lucian


On 17. Aug 2017, at 08:35, Corlaciu George Lucian 
<luc...@cliqz.com<mailto:luc...@cliqz.com>> wrote:

Hey guys,

We detected that some websites started to blacklist the Firefox user agent used 
on the iOS browser.
For the “doctrine.fr<http://doctrine.fr/>” website it is quite easy to see that 
it’s an actual blacklist :

Using the Firefox user agent:
curl -L 'https://www.doctrine.fr/' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU 
iPhone OS 10_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.1.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) 
FxiOS/1.6.0 Mobile/14E269 Safari/603.1.30 _id/000002' | grep 
incompatible_browser__link
->>> they return the “incompatible_browser__link” element

Using the Chrome user agent:
curl -L 'https://www.doctrine.fr/' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU 
iPhone OS 10_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.1.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) 
CriOS/1.6.0 Mobile/14E269 Safari/603.1.30 _id/000002' | grep 
incompatible_browser__link
->>> they DO NOT return the “incompatible_browser__link” element

Using a random user agent:
curl -L 'https://www.doctrine.fr/' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU 
iPhone OS 10_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.1.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) 
QQiOS/1.6.0 Mobile/14E269 Safari/603.1.30 _id/000002' | grep 
incompatible_browser__link
->>> they DO NOT return the “incompatible_browser__link” element

The doctrine.fr<http://doctrine.fr/> case might not be critical but it seems 
that Facebook is starting to do a similar thing - please check the attached 
screenshot (not sure if in this case its a blacklist or white list).

I was wondering if there is already anything in place to fight/prevent this.

Thanks!
Lucian


<UserAgent-Facebook.PNG><UserAgent-doctrine.PNG>

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