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Vivaldi workarounds these kind of issues by identifying itself as chrome. When a site blocks vivaldi because it is not chrome the site is added to a list and it will identify itself as chrome in the future (I know because it happened with the web version of whatsapp).

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It's actually a whitelist. Vivaldi always uses the Chrome user agent, unless it's a website known to not block it, like vivaldi.com, and probably some of their partners too.

I though it was the opposite, I guess WhatsApp was doing something weird to detect Vivaldi. Do you know how they solve it?

No idea tbh. I haven't used WhatsApp for several years and deleted my account a year ago.

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