When we open Safari on macOS 11.2.3 the browser is returning the OS version as macOS 0.15.7
Safari browser: version 14.1.2 (16611.3.10.1.6) chrome browser: Version 97.0.4692.99 (Official Build) (x86_64)
Will this be addressed in Safari/Chrome or is there any workaround.
Thanks
I'd expect to see the following info returned for the foreseeable future:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.3 Safari/605.1.15
With tracking prevention, Apple is seeking to both make fingerprinting and user tracking more difficult, and to discourage website dependencies on the browser agent string while encouraging a shift to using capabilities-based interfaces, and what you're encountering here is all part of that.
Fingerprinting, or stateless tracking, is tracking based on the properties of the user’s behavior and computing environment, without the need for explicit client-side storage. This includes properties of user’s web browser and its configuration, the user’s device and its configuration, the user’s location, or the user’s network connection. Fingerprinting vectors include but are not limited to installed fonts, the user agent string, GPU details, CPU details, IP address, and TLS connection.