While herding to the majority of latest Chrome makes his life easier, there really is a very long tail of real users who are not there. I get way too many challenges on my personal laptop running Firefox on Ubuntu (including infinite redirect loops).

There are of course exceptions like angling sites [1] which use search engines to advertise but offer little to the web surfer without paying for access - the only way for the average user to then see what google cached and validate if the site is worthwhile, is to then lie and pretend to be a bot. However I have found many of these types of sites have since brought in additional tactics to thwart this practice.

I get the same referral "old browser" ... It's something I do see a lot as I use an older browser with extensions, simply for the fact it displays more information when browsing that I plainly don't see in various latest and greatest browsers - thus at times I do have to shift browsers, and even then at times modify my browser agent [2] [3] if I need to visit a particular site with that browser - only under duress do I go down this path, most of the times I will simply dismiss such sites ... or open up a portable recently updated browser eg Supermium which by the way opens that link fine - of course nothing important there, just casual observational blah blah comments.

I don't know what's going to happen when scraping tools are able to totally fake being a Windows 11 system with the latest greatest browser with all the faked PII fields, baked cookies displayed perfectly /s

[1] use of lure, as in fishing.

[2] https://www.howtogeek.com/113439/how-to-change-your-browsers...

[3] (about the same as [2] but perhaps with more modern interfaces) https://geekflare.com/dev/change-user-agent-in-browser/