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Re:A Look at Firefox Forks by pndy on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:46PM (#43367116)
Amazon equivalent in Poland - Allegro was notoriously blocking me in Librewolf; I was served puzzle captcha or blocked from browsing at all due to "suspicious activity" 98% of the time.
Re:A Look at Firefox Forks by anonym29 on Friday March 14, 2025 @11:11PM (#43369627)
Try a spoofed user-agent, if disabling ETP and RFP doesn't help.

Also, fuck companies that do this. I just start permanently deleting accounts whenever services do this.

Re:A Look at Firefox Forks by klauserc on Saturday March 15, 2025 @04:05AM (#43370885)
As someone responsible for login/registration at a large online retailer, I see so much bot traffic and attacks. Attackers try to enumerate registered users, try to mass-login with credentials from password dumps, try to register accounts controlled by bots.

Login forms are a war zone. Looking for patterns that indicate the other party is a bot and serve them (and only them) a captcha is a technique that is quite effective. But it is not perfect. Especially business customers often get forced to solve captchas in our system.

If you know of a better solution (other than: don't be a big online shop), I'm all ears.

Re:A Look at Firefox Forks by immibis on Saturday March 15, 2025 @06:50AM (#43371635)
What is wrong with a bot creating an account? Is their money not as green?
Re:A Look at Firefox Forks by voytec on Saturday March 15, 2025 @01:53PM (#43374085)
I'd guess that their problem is data pollution (marketing unhappy, ads impressions unaligned, data needs to be cleaned anyway before PowerPoint presentations for shareholders are made). And technically: unnecessary database growth which impacts migration efficiency, backup size and duration and stuff like that.
Re:A Look at Firefox Forks by anonym29 on Saturday March 15, 2025 @10:26PM (#43376545)
They don't seem to care about ad impressions being unaligned when their ads hit people who consider all forms of advertising to be a form of offensive and unauthorized graffiti on the mind, AKA vandalism.
Re:A Look at Firefox Forks by pndy on Saturday March 15, 2025 @04:56AM (#43371112)
I'm currently testing out Floorp and so far no issues with sites - beside twitch but that site doesn't like anything that isn't "default"
Re:A Look at Firefox Forks by voytec on Saturday March 15, 2025 @01:49PM (#43374056)
> Also, fuck companies that do this. I just start permanently deleting accounts whenever services do this.

On the one hand yes, on the other - these times call for ditching US companies and switching to local (EU) ones. So it's better to tell these local ones to be more welcome / less hostile.

I have just yesterday asked Amazon to delete my account and all my personal data and stop processing it, quoting "Article 17 and Article 18 of the General Data Protection Regulation".

I'm also planning (as in: technically planning) to move all my data off AWS reasonably ASAP, too. It's personal stuff; mostly S3, domains registered and parked at Route53, some CloudFront distributions fronting static files, SQS/SNS - not much overall - and domains are the main PITA.