Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox • Hacker News Board

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

#61

Post by nathias » Fri, Jan 14, 2022, 7:08 PM UTC

not for nightly

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

#62

Post by alana314 » Fri, Jan 14, 2022, 7:08 PM UTC

Guess I'll get some work done

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

#63

Post by hackingthelema » Fri, Jan 14, 2022, 7:08 PM UTC

Interestingly, it works just fine in the console/text-based browsers links, elinks, and lynx.

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

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Post by anticensor » Fri, Jan 14, 2022, 7:08 PM UTC

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?

Request patterns

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

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Post by cm2187 » Fri, Jan 14, 2022, 7:08 PM UTC

Can it be related to the http3 downgrade firefox did yesterday?

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

#66

Post by _eric » Fri, Jan 14, 2022, 7:08 PM UTC

Looks like it is, yes. A couple hours ago I was getting an error here and there, but now it doesn't load anything at all.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 14, 2022, 7:08 PM UTC

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

#68

Post by irrational » Fri, Jan 14, 2022, 7:08 PM UTC

Oh, I thought it was just me. What a strange error. I've never seen just the word blocked and nothing else. Even viewing the source shows nothing else. And it works fine in Chrome. So... I assume this is something Firefox did?

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

#69

Post by jasfi » Fri, Jan 14, 2022, 7:09 PM UTC

I died when I first saw the message. I do marketing on Reddit for my upcoming SaaSs, but try to stay within the rules. So I thought they were trying to ban me!

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

#70

Post by everyone » Fri, Jan 14, 2022, 7:09 PM UTC

Also replying has been broken for a long time. By default it uses "fancy pants" editor when you are typing reply, and this is totally broken. You have to switch to another mode to reply.