==== Background
Google Chrome is changing the way it shares user-agents for increased privacy of users. You can read more about it here: https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5704553745874944
Google Chrome is instead planning to use [[https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/|Client Hints]] to provide device information.
User-agent strings are important pieces of information for checkusers and stewards in their work of detecting and blocking sock accounts. To continue to get that important data, we should implement support for client-hints on our end.
This project has been vetted and by the #trust-and-safety and #wmf-legal teams. The #anti-harassment tools team has been tasked with executing the technical work on this project.
==== Timeline
| Google Chrome Stable Version | Stable promotion | What happens then? |
|----|----|----|
|Chrome 84| July 14 2020| [[ https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5995832180473856 | Sec-CH-UA Client Hints ]]
|Chrome 86 (?) | October 6 2020 | [[ https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5704553745874944 | Reduce User Agent string information ]] |