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minus-squarebigBananas@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down2·5 days agoSuch a weird thing that it essentially discriminates Mozilla based browsers though, I’d expect bots would follow the most-used-approach. So yeah, this does not make me happy…although the anime-girl kinda does
minus-squareAnafabula@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up17·5 days agoIt doesn’t discriminate Mozilla based browsers. It checks if the User-Agent string contains “Mozilla”. Due to historical reasons, every browser (and software pretending to be a browser) has “Mozilla” in it’s User-Agent string. This is a User-Agent string for Google Chrome on Windows 10: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
minus-squarenickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 days agoIs it blocking you? I pretty much exclusively use Gecko at this point and don’t have an issue yet.
minus-squareAvatar of Vengeance@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 days agoWhat’s the problem with Gecko browsers exactly? The only issue I have is disabling JShelter for new domains.
Such a weird thing that it essentially discriminates Mozilla based browsers though, I’d expect bots would follow the most-used-approach. So yeah, this does not make me happy…although the anime-girl kinda does
It doesn’t discriminate Mozilla based browsers. It checks if the User-Agent string contains “Mozilla”.
Due to historical reasons, every browser (and software pretending to be a browser) has “Mozilla” in it’s User-Agent string.
This is a User-Agent string for Google Chrome on Windows 10:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36Is it blocking you? I pretty much exclusively use Gecko at this point and don’t have an issue yet.
What’s the problem with Gecko browsers exactly? The only issue I have is disabling JShelter for new domains.