Understand the impact of upcoming User Agent reduction changes in chrome

[jamesgorrie]

Our technical Google rep, Antoine Bisch, has forwarded some information regarding upcoming changes to the way that the user agent is sent with requests.

Here is the chrome blog post on the changes. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/user-agent-reduction-origin-trial/

We have the option to test in a couple of ways:

• Either at an individual level, with a feature flag we can set in chrome
• by opting into a trial that uses real origin traffic(we will need to register for this, but I have the details)

Key questions:

• What may be impacted by these changes i.e. what should we ensure we're testing? In what ways do we rely on the UA as it is currently?
• Which type of testing do we want to do?