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[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

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

[-] 12510198@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago

Grazie for the link

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