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Unfortunately, a lot of browsers now completely obfuscate themselves and don't put anything unique in the user agent string. They intentionally don't want to be detected at all beyond "I'm a modern browser".
Yeah. Perhaps that's why I'm not seeing them on any of the User agent lists, though I assumed it's because they're all new and just haven't been documented yet. (Hoping it's the latter).
I may have to break down and install them in a sacrificial VM, check, and submit my findings.
I can say that I've used a plugin for WordPress called Dark Visitors which seems to track and report on bot crawlers, including LLMs. Not sure how accurate their info is, but our marketing dept seems to believe it so ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Maybe looking into what Dark Visitors does would give you pointers on how you might detect them.
Just install the browsers and test them on your website. That's the best way to be sure it works.
That's literally what the OP said they didn't want to do. Did you read it? ๐
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