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Twitch is now blocking firefox (lemmy.zip)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Change user agent. Log in, opting to stay logged in for 30 days. Change user agent back.

That's my routine with LibreWolf.

I also believe they don't like a particular security setting present on FF based browsers, though I don't recall off the top of my head which one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Aite maybe this is a dumb question, but what is “changing the user agent”?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When your browser connects to a website, it will tell the webserver what type of browser you are using in the HTTP headers. This can be used for serving a special web page for browsers with quirks, or it can be used to block certain browsers.

It may look something like this:

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0

But you can use an extension like this one to spoof your user agent and send out one that corresponds to a chromium browser.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Grazie for the link

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Something you shouldn’t have to do in order to use the internet.

There are browser plugins that let you change your user-agent request header to masquerade as another browser (e.g., Chrome).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

User-Agent is a string of information that browsers use to identify to a site what browser, version, build, etc you are using.

You can download FF extensions that allow you to spoof a different user-agent, making the site think you're instead using Chrome, as an example.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Thanks, this works. I can log into Twitch again after changing the user agent. Twitch stopped me from logging on before this change saying "Your browser is not supported". I'm using Librewolf. I suspect we'll be seeing more of this kind of thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No problem.

I remembered the security setting Twitch didn't like, as well. It was "Enable ResistFingerprinting". If it gives you any more trouble, check the LibreWolf section in your settings for that. Same deal: toggle off, login, toggle back on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I login with Librewolf by disabling resist fingerprinting, then disabling all content blocking extensions, then clearing cookies, then restarting Librewolf. When you login, click "Remember Me" and re-enable everything

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I also believe they don't like a particular security setting present on FF based browsers, though I don't recall off the top of my head which one.

Looks like it's tracking of course