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Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases (www.theregister.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I feel like I remember reading that the pale moon JavaScript engine was broken and causing the capcha to break repeatedly?

Let me see if I can find sources

EDIT: Looks like I was remembering a previous issue where the captchas were causing the entire pale moon browser to crash. I believe this has been fixed, but the new issue is a much less exciting block.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah? I ddos websites with Pale Moon and Iceweasel so what?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder what happens if you use Pale Moon but set the user agent to Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Another comment suggested that helped with LibreWolf, but that is a closer fork than Pale Moon, so not sure

[–] realcaseyrollins 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Didn't Pale Moon end up getting deprecated or something? I switched to either LibreWolf or Firefox Nightly for my machines.

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

How can I test, if I get blocked? I just started using Waterfox and so far no issues.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

You can go to https://hear-me.social/ and click on the register button. This puts up a Cloudflare managed challenge screen which endlessly loops when using Pale Moon. It would be interesting to see if Waterfox has the same issue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Works fine with Waterfox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Works with librewolf.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Took a minute and a refresh, but it worked on Ironfox on android.

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