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Doesn't that fuck up logins and stuff?
Nope. Why would it?
I would imagine many services would think you're hijacking the session or something.
No, that would he a very dumb system. Because it would false positive every time someone changed their user agent, which is a common defense tactic in today's threat landscape.
You don't want to ban someone for protecting themselves. But I'm sure there are dumb execs who have thought this was a good idea until someone on the sec team slapped them and said "no"