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> After I saw the same error with some other websites for businesses in my town I started seeing a pattern. The company that hosts/builds this website apparentl
by lmilcin 5y ago
> After I saw the same error with some other websites for businesses in my town I started seeing a pattern. The company that hosts/builds this website apparently copy/pastes their basic server set up, and so every website they host works everywhere, except when using Firefox on Linux. So maybe one in a thousand users gets this.
Haha! Never attribute malice when a simple incompetence would explain it!
- makeitdouble 5y agoThis is not straight incompetence though, as that config is not there by accident. It’s more in line with “screw that 1 per 1000 users”, for whatever reason. Malice might be too strong of a word, disdain could be closer to what we are seeing.
- Freak_NL 5y agoI would guess it was more in the line of not suspecting that it was a valid user-agent string; just one used by bots.
- AnimalMuppet 5y ago"No True Human..."
- makeitdouble 5y agoNot even checking what matches that user-agent would be a deeper level of “screw it”. You’d google what you’re banning before banning it.