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I haven't had any problems on Waterfox. However, it is absurd to me I need javascript to simply visit a website anymore.
by zer8k 3y ago
I haven't had any problems on Waterfox. However, it is absurd to me I need javascript to simply visit a website anymore.
- kmlx 3y agothat’s because websites have evolved into web apps.
- adrianN 3y agoMost websites haven’t done that
- michaelt 3y agoSadly, the fact a given site works for you or me is no guarantee it works for someone else. These bot detection systems tend to use all manner of imprecise statistical heuristics and weird fingerprinting. Perhaps AegirLeet has a graphics card that a popular web scraper pretends to have. Maybe they're in a suspicious timezone. Maybe they've installed a font usually only found on a different operating system. Maybe I'm never blocked because I have an excellent IP reputation, due to regular visits to approved websites.
- flangola7 3y agoFingerprinting is scarily accurate now, strangely. https://fingerprint.com/ https://fingerprint.com/
- stjohnswarts 3y agoyeah, starting that that invisible pixels and cookie tracking are way in the past and unless you're using something like tor (and not changing the resolution) then they know who you are. I mean you can still block ads and cookies, but I figure they really do know who you are.
- marcosdumay 3y agoSomehow, it doesn't matter. Like the fact that the author shared non-repudiable identification information with the site also didn't matter and he was classified as a robot anyway.
- veave 3y agoAs a data point, enabling privacy.resistFingerprinting on Firefox defeats this website.