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

#131
post #8

Same here, thought it must be me! Related to the earlier http3 issue?

That's what I guessed, but the http3 fix has no effect Changing user-agent doesn't do anything either

Spoofing the user-agent to look like Chrome made reddit work for me when using Firefox.

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

#133
post #10

Good to know I'm not the only one. I thought I was IP banned or something. It works when accessed with Edge (chromium) *EDIT:* Looks like it's back up.

Initially I thought my account was banned, so I tried incognito mode and it didn't work either, so I knew it was not an account ban.

Then I thought it was an IP ban so I tried on my phone and it worked, so I knew it was not an IP ban.

The only reasonable explanation from that point on was something bad was going on on reddit side.

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

#134
post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We can only hope. In all seriousness, it feels like it was a long time coming. There were indications that web is moving towards one approved browser. It is just our luck that one browser is Chrome.

Honestly, the number of complex web-applications that are degrading slowly in firefox is only getting longer. At my office: the HR benefits system is completely broken in FF, some of our training modules in the training system fail, Azure DevOps needs me to close the browser completely and re-open to clear some kind of JS or shadow state or something... It's bad and getting worse and I don't know how much longer I ca…

On the other hand, I just got on-boarded to a doctor's office system that included a warning (delivered with the on-boarding link by SMS) that the website would "only work on a PC with Firefox or Safari".

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

#135
you can't help but admire the intellectual elite of hacker news users that don't actually know anything about technology

linking to month old issues, thinking html encoding warnings are somehow related, thinking http3 is an issue when you have just to press f12 to see it's not used

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

#138
For a while now, Firefox blocks requests to reddit.com when visiting other websites. I mean, if domain.com sends a request to reddit.com, it gets blocked through the Enhanced Tracking Protection thingie. I know this because I built a front-end for reddit and I have to turn Enhanced Tracking Protection off for the domain.
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