Re: PrivacyPass
On 21 Dec 2020 as I do recall, Bret Busby wrote: [snip] > I use multiple different web browsers, and the gotcha malware seldom > lets me through, regardless of which web browser. > > The "select all squares that have buses/traffic lights/fire > hydrants/pedestrian crossings go into endless loops of bringing up > more tiled pictures, without allowing passage beyond them. Oh, I assumed that was just me being clueless about American culture and/or the pictures being tiny and fuzzy and/or the system requiring multiple completions and not just one -- I always get forced through four or five loops before it consents to go anywhere -- Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie == Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. ___ netsurf-users mailing list -- netsurf-users@netsurf-browser.org To unsubscribe send an email to netsurf-users-le...@netsurf-browser.org
User-agent faking
Twitter.com no longer displays in Netsurf, saying "This browser is no longer supported". Until recently it allowed access to a legacy desktop layout, but no more. Can the user-agent string be faked in Netsurf to allow it to display Twitter pages? Perhaps just temporarily? This page https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-supported-browsers suggests Twitter is using the user-agent string to identify the client browser (then deny access) The code that produces it seems to be useragent.c ; https://ci.netsurf-browser.org/jenkins/job/docs-netsurf/doxygen/useragent_8c.html Regards Ewen -- Ewen Pring, St. Albans, Herts using RISC OS 5 https://timebus.co.uk/riscos/ ___ netsurf-users mailing list -- netsurf-users@netsurf-browser.org To unsubscribe send an email to netsurf-users-le...@netsurf-browser.org
Re: User-agent faking
On 22 Dec 2020 as I do recall, Ewen Pring wrote: > Twitter.com no longer displays in Netsurf, saying "This browser is no > longer supported". Until recently it allowed access to a legacy desktop > layout, but no more. > > Can the user-agent string be faked in Netsurf to allow it to display > Twitter pages? Perhaps just temporarily? > I noticed a few weeks ago that they had a warning banner up saying that they were going to remove their legacy pages altogether as of the middle of December, and now they have presumably done it. I don't think faking the user agent will help - they have simply stopped providing the service. (I tried with Otter-browser and got nothing but a log-in request; I don't have a Twitter account so couldn't log in.) -- Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie == Presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better. ___ netsurf-users mailing list -- netsurf-users@netsurf-browser.org To unsubscribe send an email to netsurf-users-le...@netsurf-browser.org
Re: User-agent faking
Harriet Bazley wrote on 22 Dec 2020: > I don't think > faking the user agent will help - they have simply stopped providing the > service. I see what you mean. It seems you need Javascript to view a Twitter page (log in or not) now. I tried disabling Javascript in Firefox on a PC and it won't work at all with that either. -- Ewen Pring, St. Albans, Herts using RISC OS 5 https://timebus.co.uk/riscos/ ___ netsurf-users mailing list -- netsurf-users@netsurf-browser.org To unsubscribe send an email to netsurf-users-le...@netsurf-browser.org
