Blogs

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Marketing

10/18/2022 3:15 PM

Countdown to G-Day: Phase 5 of the User-Agent reduction

Chrome 107 is the first Chrome version to contain reduced platform information within desktop User-Agents

If you have not adjusted your systems to support User-Agent Client Hints before the release of Chrome 107 on 25 October 2022, you are likely to encounter a reduction in your device detection accuracy.

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James Rosewell & Kirstin

10/12/2022 3:45 PM

Learn Client Hints webinar transcript

This is a transcript of our webinar from 28 September 2022

The webinar, and this transcript, serves as an extensive history into why Google are reducing the User-Agent in favor of their own creation, User-Agent Client Hints.

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51Degrees

10/6/2022 4:30 PM

Legacy device detection algorithm freely available in Europe

51Degrees announce that our legacy pattern device detection algorithm, used in our Version 3 product, can be implemented by anyone in Europe without needing to seek prior permission from 51Degrees.

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51Degrees

10/4/2022 2:30 PM

Events to attend in October 2022

Come and meet James Rosewell and see the future of publishing

This month, James will be attending numerous events. First, he’ll be speaking at the AOP Publishing Tech Talk in London, before hopping across the pond to Adexchanger’s Programmatic IO and the Sitecore Symposium.

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51Degrees

9/1/2022 1:00 PM

Why is Google messing with the User-Agent?

Join our webinar and find out how Google’s Privacy Sandbox proposals will affect you

In this webinar, we’ll discuss Google’s User-Agent Reduction and User-Agent Client Hints proposals. Both are a big change, whether you are a website owner, web analytics professional, or performance optimization specialist, you will need to prepare. Join us on 28 September to learn more.

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51Degrees

8/15/2022 1:00 PM

DMEXCO 2022

Optimize the web experience

Been itching to find out more about our Device Detection, Geolocation, and TAC services? Come chat with us at DMEXCO 2022 to learn more.

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Data Team

8/8/2022 2:00 PM

How to view HardwareImages property over HTTPS connections

The HardwareImages property returns image results in the form of a HTTP link. This blog will show you how to convert these links into HTTPS.

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51Degrees

8/1/2022 1:00 PM

Usage sharing: how do we use your data

This feature can help improve our machine learning algorithm

We encourage users of our service to enable usage sharing so that our algorithm can discover new or rare devices. This blog delves deeper into what we do with the data you provide through usage sharing.

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51Degrees

7/25/2022 1:00 PM

Latency issues within User-Agent Client Hints

How to make your concerns known to Google

User-Agent Client Hints return device information in the second request rather than the first; this can cause latency issues. We discuss why Google need to address the latency and offer a work-around.

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Data team

7/6/2022 5:00 PM

Expected differences between 51Degrees V3 and V4

Seeing different detection results?

Our users who are upgrading from Version 3 to Version 4 can expect performance differences between the two. We discuss why in this blog.