It’s especially moronic that Cloudflare thinks everyone using Tor is trying to DDOS every site.
Do you know how fucking slow Tor is? You couldn’t DDOS an Arduino with it.
Onion sites get DDOS attacks constantly. That’s why Dread has so many backup links.
afaik, cloudflare has an option to disallow tor traffic. so the website owner decided they don’t want tor
Not only tor. Any user agent string that has no valid info is marked as not trusted/bot/gtfo
It’s “how it feels” or “what it feels like”, not “how it feels like”
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Actually, the top one is the logo of the chromium browser engine, but the bottom one is not the logo of the Gecko browser engine. That’s the logo of SpiderMonkey, Firefox’s Javascript engine (Chromium uses V8).
This is the logo for Gecko:
Firefox doesn’t even use Gecko anymore, it uses Quantum. I think it still uses spidermonkey though.
This is not correct.
Firefox still uses Gecko for its HTML engine. Quantum was a project to incorporate some learnings from Servo, and other larger performance projects, into Firefox components, including Gecko.
Just an aside, but Servo was never intended to replace Gecko, and was only intended to be a R&D project for improving some Firefox components. This was due to the long-tail of web compatibility that would be required to make Servo a suitable replacement for Gecko.
Brave isn’t doing much better with captchas lately due to having adblocking built in, google is just on a crusade against anyone blocking stuff.
I get the joke but I don’t have any problems visiting websites. Neither with firefox nor with mull
My wife was recently in school. Almost all the services she used decline to render unless you’re using Chrome.
But I did have issues with some Web SDRs on http://www.websdr.org/ when using Chromium-based browsers
And I wasn’t the only one, looking at F.A.Q.:
Q: I’m using Chrome and don’t hear audio (on some sites)!
A: Since version 71, Chrome does not allow every website to start playing audio, in order to stop annoying advertisements. Chrome tries to guess whether you want audio or not, but doesn’t always get it right. On some WebSDR sites, you’ll get an “audio start” button, on some you don’t.
If you don’t get audio, try the following:
- At the top right, click the 4 vertical dots, and then Settings.
- At the bottom, click Advanced.
- Under “Privacy and security,” click Site settings.
- Select “Sound”
- Select “Add” and enter “http://*”
(thanks to K9GL for these instructions)
Note that the above effectively disables Chrome’s “autoplay” policy for all http sites.
Although stopping automatic sound from advertisements is a noble idea, I think Chrome’s autoplay policy is fundamentally wrong. Instead of trying to guess what the user wants, the browser should simply ask the user whether he/she wants to allow the page to play sound (and remember that for later visits, of course).
my company give choice to use Firefox and Chrome and it is mandatory to install those browsers on those computers. But, 95% use Chrome.
My company has basically forced us to use Chrome. It’s mentioned repeatedly throughout our training period.
I haven’t tried Firefox at work yet though but I’m sure it’ll work just fine.
I use lynx btw.
It’s time to get rid of user-agent strings that declare anything other than desktop, mobile, or html version.
The biggest offender is, surprisingly, cloudflare. They will straight up refuse to serve you any site if your user agent is not one of the mainstream ones. It’s not even “find the traffic light to prove you’re human”, but a page basically saying “fuck you, go away”.
Well their job is to block weird bot-looking traffic…
what is more likely to be a bot? a unique and trackable useragent for a semi-niche browser engine, or a vanilla Chromium+Windows which half of everyone uses ?
Do we, as an industry, have such short attention span, that we forgot how Microsoft abused their monopoly in the 1990s to force everyone to use Internet Explorer? Now that Google is doing the exact same thing, nobody seems to mind.
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What’s the problem with Firefox? Certainly can’t be the speed or ram usage.
There’s no problem with Firefox. The problem is with managers of websites. Because Chromium-based browsers combined account for something like over 90% of global browser market share currently (source: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share), many sites decide to just throw any non-Chromium browser users overboard. The whole thing is quite ridiculous. It makes no sense that Firefox has such a low market share either.
YouTube intentionally slows down on non-chrome browsers
The image says “visiting websites”, not “YouTube”. And Google does this for several years already, not just since 2023. The new 5 second delay is also happening in Chromium based browsers if you use an adblocker, it just isn’t immediately rolling out to everyone yet. See A/B testing methodology.
Are they doing this for everyone? I’ve seen all the posts about it but haven’t had any issues myself. I’m using Firefox and uBlock
A/B testing rn
I did some testing last night and again this morning. Still no difference between Chrome and Firefox for me.
I don’t know which websites do that browser discrimination.
Pornhub
I suppose you are just trolling. If not, send any links with evidences please.
Youtube
I don’t have any problem with YouTube, and I don’t even see any ad. Can you send links? Because the last rumor was just a 5 timeout delay for ad blockers users, not specially for Firefox users.
Appearantly people only read headlines
Apparently just non-chromium users, not adblock users
I’ve read several comments from chromium browser users that they also experienced this. I’m using Firefox and have not. It’s just A/B testing for all adblock users.
I don’t have any slow-down time, and Chromium users will have bigger issues with ad blockers with ManifestV3.
Is that the logo for Amarok?
Amarok is what converted me to Linux Desktop, especially the iPod support in 2008. For me that was the year of the Linux Desktop.
No librewolf, but I totally do see the Amarok confusion lol
