feat: update browser headers to mimic consented desktop Chrome and bypass GDPR

Author: Lalit Sharma

apps/mobile/src/utils/sharedMapLink.ts

@@ -66,12 +66,25 @@ const GOOGLE_CENTER_ARRAY_RE = new RegExp(
   "i",
 );
 
-// Browser headers to avoid consent pages
+// Browser headers to mimic consented desktop Chrome and bypass GDPR
 const BROWSER_HEADERS = {
   "user-agent":
-    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
-  accept: "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
-  "accept-language": "en-GB,en;q=0.9",
+    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
+  accept:
+    "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8",
+  "accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
+  "accept-language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
+  "cache-control": "max-age=0",
+  "sec-ch-ua": '"Chromium";v="131", "Not_A Brand";v="24"',
+  "sec-ch-ua-mobile": "?0",
+  "sec-ch-ua-platform": '"Windows"',
+  "sec-fetch-dest": "document",
+  "sec-fetch-mode": "navigate",
+  "sec-fetch-site": "none",
+  "sec-fetch-user": "?1",
+  "upgrade-insecure-requests": "1",
+  // Consent cookie to bypass GDPR interstitial
+  cookie: "CONSENT=PENDING+999; SOCS=CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyNDAxMTAtMF9SQzIaAmVuIAEaBgiA9-GtBg",
 };
 
 type ExpandedShortMapUrlResult = {