Reddit is blocking users based on user agents? - eviltoast

Started to get this message when accessing Reddit. I use LibreWolf as a browser, which does indeed provide a more generic user agent to combat fingerprinting, but nothing out of the ordinary either (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0). Anyone else experiencing this?

Edit: seems to have resolved itself. Thanks for confirming I wasn’t doing anything wrong. Let’s hope this isn’t some new algorithm to test if for insufficient fingerprinting so Reddit can kick ad-resistant users.

  • lud@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Google also changes a bunch of features if you change the user agent to some really old or non existent browser versions.

    I don’t think they are making Firefox worse on purpose. I think it’s just something they don’t bother to fix.