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Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

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Post by BitterAmethyst »

A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote: post #47
Nasreddin_Hodja wrote: post #27

#metoo Faking User-Agent header doesn't help.

This is interesting now. What are some other simple ways of identifying a browser?

There are JS objects you can look for, `window.chrome` for example is present on Chromium browsers but not Firefox.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

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Post by irrational »

adl wrote: post #53

Here is some more info: https://twitter.com/FirefoxSupport/status/148159226614171648... There is a thread on /r/firefox (Use Chrome or Edge to see it) https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/s2utvv/psa_solutio...

> Firefox has witnessed outages recently

How does a browser experience "outages"? Uh... In my mind it is just a tool and any outage would have to be on the part of the server/website I am trying to browse.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

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Post by arsfeld »

adl wrote: post #53

Here is some more info: https://twitter.com/FirefoxSupport/status/148159226614171648... There is a thread on /r/firefox (Use Chrome or Edge to see it) https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/s2utvv/psa_solutio...

None of that is working for me, I think it's a different issue.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

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Post by krono »

Looks like FireFox is actually blocking Reddit rather than the other way around.

Edit: Firefox blocked the site from loading as it would have been unsafe to attempt due to the encoding problem. I wasn't implying anything else and even posted the browser's own error message. Relax.

Check your console:

    The character encoding of the plain text document was not declared. The document will render with garbled text in some browser configurations if the document contains characters from outside the US-ASCII range. The character encoding of the file needs to be declared in the transfer protocol or file needs to use a byte order mark as an encoding signature.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

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Post by politelemon »

adl wrote: post #53

Here is some more info: https://twitter.com/FirefoxSupport/status/148159226614171648... There is a thread on /r/firefox (Use Chrome or Edge to see it) https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/s2utvv/psa_solutio...

Although that's from yesterday, that's a separate issue, browsing wasn't working for any site.

In this case the Reddit servers are responding with a 403

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