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Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases (www.theregister.com)
submitted 1 month ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] zorro@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I feel like I remember reading that the pale moon JavaScript engine was broken and causing the capcha to break repeatedly?

Let me see if I can find sources

EDIT: Looks like I was remembering a previous issue where the captchas were causing the entire pale moon browser to crash. I believe this has been fixed, but the new issue is a much less exciting block.

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah? I ddos websites with Pale Moon and Iceweasel so what?

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder what happens if you use Pale Moon but set the user agent to Firefox.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Another comment suggested that helped with LibreWolf, but that is a closer fork than Pale Moon, so not sure

[–] Limerance@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How can I test, if I get blocked? I just started using Waterfox and so far no issues.

[–] Jerry@feddit.online 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You can go to https://hear-me.social/ and click on the register button. This puts up a Cloudflare managed challenge screen which endlessly loops when using Pale Moon. It would be interesting to see if Waterfox has the same issue.

[–] Limerance@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

Works fine with Waterfox.

[–] circledot@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Works with librewolf.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Took a minute and a refresh, but it worked on Ironfox on android.

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