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

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Blocked on firefox but not on Safari. Also other computers in my house on the same IP are not blocked.

I was researching Russian-Ukranian relations abd posting in r/worldnews about the crisis there. Wondering if it's related, or if lots of users are experiencing this as a blanket issue.

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

#93
post #18

Hopefully this will be permanent.

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 can stick with FF.

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

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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…

No, that just means that there is no encoding sent in the header (or HTML http-equiv tag).

Anyway, it's back up for me.

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