At first I was getting it for some proxy services and fediverse services, and didn't think much of it cause I thought it was just some thing small projects used instead of cloudflare/google. But yeah now I've been seeing it on more "official" websites and I'm happy about it after I took time to read their github page.

I especially love it since I don't have to cry over failing 30 "click the sidewalk" captchas in a row for daring to use a VPN + uBlock + Librewolf to look at a single page of search results. I can sit on my ass for 5 sec and breeze through, assured that I'm not a robot 🥹

[–] bigBananas@feddit.nl 9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Such a weird thing that it essentially discriminates Mozilla based browsers though, I'd expect bots would follow the most-used-approach. So yeah, this does not make me happy..although the anime-girl kinda does

[–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 5 days ago

It doesn't discriminate Mozilla based browsers. It checks if the User-Agent string contains "Mozilla".

Due to historical reasons, every browser (and software pretending to be a browser) has "Mozilla" in it's User-Agent string.

This is a User-Agent string for Google Chrome on Windows 10:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 5 days ago

Is it blocking you? I pretty much exclusively use Gecko at this point and don't have an issue yet.

[–] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

What's the problem with Gecko browsers exactly? The only issue I have is disabling JShelter for new domains.