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[-] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 110 points 11 months ago

changes useragent to Chrome. Everything works perfectly on the site

Hmm. Interesting.

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 49 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is actually exactly how user agents evolved.

Chrome pretends to be safari.

IE pretends to be Netscape.

Safari pretends to be Firefox.

All popular browsers pretend to be at least one other browser for compatibility.

https://humanwhocodes.com/blog/2010/01/12/history-of-the-user-agent-string/

[-] FinancesDrone98@programming.dev 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

So it’s kind of like back in the Netscape days.

Men are men, women are men, boys are men, and little girls are FBI agents.

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 33 points 11 months ago
[-] lnsfw3@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 11 months ago
[-] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 9 points 11 months ago
[-] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 5 points 11 months ago

Well, he was definitely stroking something.

[-] ndguardian@lemmy.studio 15 points 11 months ago

My SO just had something similar pop up yesterday. She was running into weird errors on her Chromebook, so I had her change her user agent to Chrome on Windows. Everything magically worked. Hmm…

[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

Which proves that M$ Teams definitely isn't heaven, because some things actually don't work with Firefox, as I recall.

[-] starman@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago

Last time I tried to log in it said something about cookies and I had to use chrome.

[-] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 4 points 11 months ago

that's your own fault for using teams though

also they don't count since Microsoft changes all links to force open in Edge and there's nothing you can do about it.

[-] giffybiss@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 11 months ago

Most ppl don’t use Teams by way of personal choice

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 6 points 11 months ago

$ cat firefox.exe > edge.exe doesn't work?

[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago
[-] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 1 points 11 months ago

You will use your corporate vendor lock-in garbage software and you will LIKE IT! THATS AN ORDER!!

I don't really care what happens on my work machine tbh. I'll use whatever they set to default.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Microsoft changes all links to force open in Edge

Or, that doesn't work in Firefox either.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Calls don't work.

I does video meetings perfectly well. But not calls. And if you never used Teams, just try to guess the difference.

[-] JoCrichton@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago

Guess I’m continuing to use Firefox in hell then

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 12 points 11 months ago

Join the club!

[-] user224 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"Best viewed with Netscape navigator"

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] user224 3 points 11 months ago

The image embed doesn't work. Lemmy supports embedding media only if HTTPS is used. This website is HTTP.

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 4 points 11 months ago

I already fixed it, but I didn't know that! That's really cool!

[-] user224 9 points 11 months ago

You can also embed images inside links, by the way (click the button):
Get Firefox

[![Get Firefox](https://i.imgur.com/KpmYhB1.gif)](https://getfirefox.com)

Also if say you have image/animation/audio/video link without extension (e.g.: .jpg), you can fool Lemmy using a fragment identifier at the end of URL #.jpg which would usually be used to jump to the fragment id in document. e.g.: https://example.org/image#.jpg

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 5 points 11 months ago

Wowzers that's fancy, I'll have to save that for the future

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Now I'm wondering if someone in bad faith could link an tracking image and just rip ip addressees in the background

I guess it depends on if lemmy clients query the link to fetch fetch images or just grab a cached copy of the image from the lemmy instance

[-] user224 4 points 11 months ago

Images in comments don't get cached, so absolutely yes. But I mean, public IP + User Agent is like minimum of information anyway. Any website you visit gets it.

[-] mounderfod 6 points 11 months ago

it's not just lemmy; HTTPS websites aren't allowed to serve HTTP content
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Mixed_content

[-] user224 2 points 11 months ago

Sorry, my bad. And thanks for the info.

[-] mounderfod 2 points 11 months ago

No worries, I find the intricacies of protocols like this super interesting 😊

[-] dullbananas@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago

Vatican website

[-] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 22 points 11 months ago

"It seems you have an ad blocker enabled. In order the enjoy the full benefits of heaven, please disable it and accept our cookies"

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 14 points 11 months ago

bro who is selling ads in heaven

[-] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 24 points 11 months ago

Google Adsense has a further reach that you think

[-] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 11 months ago

Hell runs on Linux so it never freezes.

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 5 points 11 months ago

It all makes so much sense now haha!

[-] Quindius@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

At least God isn't a crypto bro

[-] CanadaPlus 8 points 11 months ago

Hell only supports IE. You hang out in limbo with all the cool kids.

[-] tacosplease@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

If Firefox could run full screen video without crashing every fucking time ... that'd be great

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 8 points 11 months ago

I don't seem to have any problem with Firefox videos, maybe it's on your end

[-] tacosplease@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

That's absolutely part of it. I have an old phone, but Chrome has been flawless on every phone I've had including this one.

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