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Problem with Mull and Duolingo (slrpnk.net)

submitted 9 months ago by franzpow@slrpnk.net to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hello, I started to experience a problem with Mull and Duolingo (and also bromite) that started about 1 month ago.

Basically Duolingo tells me that my browser is not supported but it worked perfectly fine before. Anyone experienced this issue? I can't find an issue on mull repo apparently about this specific issue. Dunno if it is something about resisting fingerprint but I wonder why that happens..

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[–] brokenlcd@feddit.it 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You can try with an extension that changes the user agent of your browser; if you use the one from either firefox or chrome for android it should work. Usually its the only thing checked by sites when identifing browsers for non telemetry reasons; if the problem persists I'm not sure what it could be

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

Mulls user agent is firefox

[–] androidul@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

what on gods sake are they doing so special that requires those browsers explicitly

[–] kambusha@feddit.ch 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing they don't want to test on any other browsers, so it's easier just to say that those aren't supported. Most likely it works on others, you just need to spoof the agent.

[–] hackris@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

This is definitely the case, but I wonder why companies don't add a button, such as "Access website without support", that would get you to the site while clearly telling you that any technical problems (of which, in 99% of cases, there will be none, since all of this seems like supporting Google internet dominance) will be ignored by support.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago

I mean, at least it allows for more than just Chrome. You can do worse.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I pretty much instantly lose respect for people who design sites to only support specific browsers. With the exception of Firefox, it's all Chromium anyway so they don't really need to worry about it. This isn't like when Internet Explorer was a thing and broke web pages.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Mull should say its Firefox. What extensions do you have installed?

[–] squid_slime@lemmy.world -4 points 9 months ago

They're are extensions/addons for this