Ask HN: Why do we still need the HTTP-User-Agent-Header?

1 points by miclill ↗ HN
All I know is that it's bad for privacy. Are there any useful things that can be done with it?

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I simply find it annoying that I have to use a User agent switcher to use a mobile site on desktop...