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Google would just change the user-agent they were blocking to whatever Microsoft changed it to. It was intentional.


Again, there's no rule that says devices must have unique user-agents. Once you've established that Google wants to block Windows Phone from using maps, you can send the user-agent string of something they don't want to block.




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