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

#102
post #88

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…

It's just a warning firefox is logging because the "Blocked" response is just `text/plain` and doesn't have a header specifying the character encoding.

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

#105
post #101

Uhh not really having any problems with me on Firefox 96 on Ubuntu. Granted I didn't have an issue with the HTTP3 bug either.

Same boat. Didn't have an issue with HTTP3 two days ago, no reddit outage either. I wonder if my DNS resolver is helping somehow. I use Adguard.

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

#106

I wonder if this is related to Firefox’ woes with HTTP/3[0] that prevented it from loading all pages the other day. Either way, events such as these are likely to cause an increase in migration from Firefox to Chrome. [0]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749908

Doubt it. I've been accessing Reddit with Firefox v96 without issues for quite some time.

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

#110
post #98

Same here. Tried to fake the agent to Chrome 87 and was still blocked. Edit: 14:23EST - it's back online for me.

Oooh, so it's not user-agent it's detecting, but something else?

It seems to be an http3 issue. Trying to find a way to replicate it in a Chromium browser. I am trying to understand whether it is a Firefox specific issue, or if it's Reddit not handling the fallback.
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