♻️ Reblog of
benschwarz (benschwarz@front-end.social)
In upcoming Lighthouse 10, there will no longer be `Chrome-Lighthouse` in the Chrome `User-Agent` header.
In my observations people are have used UA sniffing for two purposes:
* To cheat the Lighthouse score by "hiding" or removing certain codepaths
* To identify Lighthouse traffic, and let it through the firewall, or stop it from being rate-limitedAfter LH10, that won't be an option.
Read more here: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/pull/14384