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I know I can spoof my useragent, it's just ridiculous that such a massive app doesn't support an equally massive browser.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Try the user agent switcher add-on. The volume of times I've changed my agent to chrome and had a site work perfectly is infuriating.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand why Firefox doesn't have a button for that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My problem was that CloudFlare refused to validate me when I have it enabled. I could have stock FF UA, but if my user agent switcher addon isn't disabled then I didn't get to use Crunchyroll and a few other sporadic sites.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I haven't been able to use a cloudfare website for a while now. If they're going to make me go through hoops because I refuse to use chrome, fuck it, they don't get my business.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

FF works with CloudFlare sites, just not with that extension enabled. It doesn't make sense that they'd purposely block sites if you have a UA switcher that isn't even changing the UA so I'm hoping it's a bug that will get fixed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have a setting somewhere that pisses off cloudflare then. It doesn't matter what I do with FF, it just keeps making me click the checkmark over and over.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That was my experience as well until I read a comment on Reddit that disabling the UA switcher addon in Firefox's settings fixes it. It's really annoying having to enable it every time I want to pretend to use Chrome but at least I can watch anime again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I was sure I disabled it, but next time I need it, I'll make sure. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

it depends on how much anti-fingerprinting you've setup. I only get endless captchas from every site and ended up just using an extension that blocks all crimeflare sites and redirects to an archive.org version of the page.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I still doesn't work even if I have changed user agent to chrome. I guess they have some other mechanism to find the browser.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago

They said they know about that, but it’s ridiculous.