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Auto updating user agent list doesn't work - proposing a new source of truth.

TL;DR:

user-agents.txt hasn't been updated for 4 months (as of april 2021) and some sites suggest updating the browser. https://browsehappy.com/ has a list of up-to-date versions of most popular browsers.

Truth = "current up-to-date browser version numbers"

Hey! Tried locating the WikiData source of Truth to see why it might be not working but couldn't :(

Yesterday when using the random mode in User-AS, some webpage suggested updating my browser and linked this website: https://browsehappy.com/ which current major version numbers of all the browsers.

I got the idea to update the user agent strings with the versions from browsehappy. But why not submit the changes to the project page so everybody could've used them? Then I saw that it should work automatically. Since it's not working and I don't know how to scrape data from the browsehappy, I'm just submitting this issue for further consideration of smarter and more competent people.