Note that our default UA contains "Ubuntu 14.04 like Android 4.4", so
we’re not actually pretending to be Android, just hinting that we have
similar capabilities, which leaves the door open to content producers to
do a proper detection.

For comparison, Firefox OS chose a deliberately short and clean default
UA string (one that doesn’t pretend to be who it isn’t), and they’re
having to do a lot of (largely volunteer) work to try and evangelise
major websites to recognize their UA, while at the same time making
heavy use of the override mechanism to send a fake UA (that most of the
time contains an Android token anyway).

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  User-Agent string results in poor UX on web

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