Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Anti-harassment/Deal with Google Chrome User-Agent deprecation

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Deal with Google Chrome User-Agent deprecation

Problem: Google Chrome, the most widely used browser on the internet, will soon start limiting the information it includes on HTTP requests about the client (also known as the user-agent string). User-agent, along with IP address, is an important piece of data used by CheckUsers to fight sockpuppetry.
Proposed solution: See phab:T242825
Who would benefit: All projects in which CUs are run and a substantial group of users edit from internet providers who own wide IP ranges and frequently hop the user's IP within this broad range (which I understand is more common in developing countries than in some developed countries like the US in which static IPs are more common).
More comments: This is already on people's radar, but submitting it here, on behalf of the CU community, is an attempt to bring it up the list of priorities.
Phabricator tickets: phab:T242825
Proposer: Huji (talk) 21:34, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

It is very useful for CUs to have useragents to rule out or further connect two users who share the same IP / similar ranges. Especially on busy ranges or for proxies two accounts being on the same or similar IPs doesn't necessarily technically link two users to each other. Having alternatives such as UA Hints provided in the tool would be better than having non-descriptive UAs (which is what Google Chrome plans to have). Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | enwiki} 22:07, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Could you explain to someone with no experience with CheckUser to what extent anything this could be dealt with/what could be done to deal with this? ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 19:25, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Support Majavah (talk!) 18:54, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support MER-C 19:17, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —MarcoAurelio (talk) 19:45, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Strainu (talk) 20:38, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support FabulaFortis (talk) 20:47, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support EpicPupper (talk) 22:32, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Izno (talk) 22:43, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 22:54, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sgd. —Hasley 23:04, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Guerillero ^{Parlez Moi} 23:28, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --𝑇𝑚𝑣 (𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘) 00:48, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lectrician1 (talk) 01:54, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Betseg (talk) 02:00, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rs chen 7754 02:34, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Shizhao (talk) 03:25, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 07:39, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Arado Ar 196 (talk) 10:27, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Support — SHEIKH (Talk) 12:16, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Support 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 18:01, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Jules* ^Talk 18:03, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 07:51, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Johannnes89 (talk) 08:24, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ameisenigel (talk) 08:42, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support (and remember to support & recommend Firefox!) Sasha7272 (talk) 11:13, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Geraki ^T_L 14:02, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support--L736E ^{tell me} 15:03, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | enwiki} 14:10, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Hulged (talk) 14:18, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support DoublePendulumAttractor (talk) 15:16, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Can't think of any reason that this should not be added. AWESOMEDUDE0614 (talk) 16:14, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Novak Watchmen (talk) 17:44, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support K-MUS (talk) 19:16, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Thanks, EDG 543 (message me) 14:34, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Support I doubt there needs to be any opposition. AtlasDuane (talk) 18:37, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ed ^{[talk] [en]} 21:53, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Matěj Suchánek (talk) 12:12, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Support evrifaessa ❯❯❯ talk 15:45, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support -BRAINULATOR9 (TALK) 17:26, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]