how does a website automatically know/change if you’re using it on a PC or Phone?

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how does a website automatically know/change if you’re using it on a PC or Phone?

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Your mobile phone internet browser has what’s called a “user agent” that identifies it to the website. So if it shows a *mobile* user agent, the site displays the mobile version of the site. And you can set it to show the desktop version 100% of the time if you want but that would be painful.

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