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Rails is going to make this much worse for you. All new apps include naive agent sniffing and block anything “old” https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/50505 htt

• GoblinSlayer 2y ago
  def blocked? user_agent_version_reported? && unsupported_browser? end well, you know what to do here :)
• mzajc 2y ago
  This is horrifying. What happened to simply displaying a "Your browser is outdated, consider upgrading" banner on the website?
  • shbooms 2y ago
    idk, even that seems too much to me, but maybe I'm just being too senstive. but like, why is it a website's job to tell me what browser version to use? unless my outdated browser is lacking legitmate functionality which is required by your website, just serve the page and be done with it.
    • michaelt 2y ago
      Back when the sun was setting on IE6, sites deployed banners that basically meant "We don't test on this, there's a good chance it's broken, but we don't know the specifics because we don't test with it"
  • freedomben 2y ago
    Wow. And this is now happening right as I've blacklisted google-chrome due to manifest v3 removal :facepalm:
  • whoopdedo 2y ago
    The irony being you can get around the block by pretending to be a bot. https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52531 https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52531
  • hombre_fatal 2y ago
    It does do that, though. https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/50505/files#diff-dce8d06697cbc25eb0c86bfb863418273e94c7ffcb5defe0fff898c032226397R61-R62 https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/50505/files#diff-dce8d06...