51Degrees
12/12/2024 2:30 PM
End-of-Year Service Update from 51Degrees
End-of-Year Service Update from 51Degrees.
12/5/2024 2:30 PM
Fixing Fingerprinting and other Privacy Nonsense
Calling probabilistic identifiers implies wrongdoing, but sharing such data isn’t illegal unless it's used to make impactful decisions about individuals.
11/11/2024 2:30 PM
Balancing Security and Functionality: CSP and Client Side Device Detection Scripts
The blog discusses how strict Content Security Policy (CSP) settings blocked 51Degrees' device detection script, which required 'unsafe-eval' for dynamic JavaScript execution. The solution was to temporarily enable 'unsafe-eval' to restore functionality while managing security risks.
10/14/2024 2:30 PM
AI Crawler Control - New property for Publishers
The new 51Degrees IsArtificialIntelligence property helps identify whether a web crawler is being used to gather data for AI training. This property gives the user greater control and can be used to block certain crawlers from accessing content, particularly when AI training doesn't serve their interests.
1/11/2024 1:00 PM
Improvements to 51Degrees made in 2023
Staying on top of industry changes is crucial for an accurate device detection service
A lot happened in 2023 – industry changes and major device releases dominated the device detection market. In response to this, we continuously updated the 51Degrees service.
12/5/2023 3:30 PM
Retiring the git.51degrees.com server
We no longer support the code base or data file format
We’ve retired the HAProxy git.51degrees.com service. We recommend you get started with Version 4 which retains features such as in-memory data upgrades and multi-threading support.
10/11/2023 12:00 PM
Update to the 51Degrees predictive algorithm
We’ve updated our predictive algorithm to tolerate corruption in the User-Agent and User-Agent Client Hints data. The changes result in a more accurate device detection.
7/6/2023 2:00 PM
We now release data files on Fridays
This change has been in effect since Friday 30 June 2023
In the next round of device detection improvements to 51Degrees, we’ve improved our data file release schedule.
6/7/2023 4:30 PM
We’ve improved our device detection accuracy
Better detection without compromising performance
We’ve improved our device detection accuracy following feedback raised by our customers, and we’re pleased to announce the release of our upgraded algorithm and data files.
1/5/2023 2:15 PM
51Degrees: 2022 recap
Google's changes to the Chrome User-Agent dominated our year
As we begin a new year, let's look back at what 2022 had in store for 51Degrees.