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Google Search App?? #7026

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eduardokraus opened this issue Mar 2, 2022 · 6 comments
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Google Search App?? #7026

eduardokraus opened this issue Mar 2, 2022 · 6 comments

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@eduardokraus
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userAgent => Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_7 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) GSA/180.0.400278405 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

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client

  • [type] => mobile app
  • [name] => Google Search App
  • [version] => 180.0
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sanchezzzhak commented Mar 3, 2022

what is the question?

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user_agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_7 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) GSA/180.0.400278405 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
os:
  name: iOS
  version: "14.7"
  platform: ""
client:
  type: mobile app
  name: Google Search App
  version: 180.0.400278405
device:
  type: smartphone
  brand: Apple
  model: iPhone
os_family: iOS
browser_family: Unknown

@eduardokraus
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Yes.

The detail is that "client" is not Google

@sgiehl
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sgiehl commented Mar 3, 2022

@eduardokraus And what is incorrect about that? The GSA/ in the user agent actually indicates the Google Search App. Or isn't that correct?

@eduardokraus
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It's not correct.

This is an access via iPhone of a student logged in watching classes in a restricted environment.

@sgiehl
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sgiehl commented Mar 3, 2022

That might be possible, but which client is it actually using?
As mentioned the user agent indicates it is the google (search) app

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pbb72 commented Sep 5, 2023

I'd like to chime in here. If I should open a new issue, I can.

The Google Search App is more or less like an add-on to the iOS WebView. It inherits the same functionality as the WebView component. However, the Matomo report hides the information about the WebView version by only reporting the GSA version.

I would prefer these useragents reported as other iOS WebView useragents (I guess that's Mobile Safari?) with the relevant version information. For example "Mobile Safari 16.6". If the GSA information really is vital (I can't really see that it is) it could also be "Mobile Safari (using Google Search App) 16.6".

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