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Is this the issue that the article is referring to?

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/07/10/apple-pulls-ios-16-5-1-...

> Unfortunately, it appears that the updates changed the Safari user agent to include an (a), leading some websites to break.

Lol...

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When Safari 2.0.4 was released many many aeons ago a whole bunch of sites broke. Not because of browser issues, but because many websites were looking for "netscape" and "4" in the user agent to detect netscape 4. Then they'd (try to) us JSS and layers \o/

No, that’s a “rapid security response”, which is uninstallable.

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