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Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by janalsncm on Saturday July 12, 2025 @07:03PM (#44545951)
“Sorry, we don’t support any browsers other than Chrome”

I agree exploiting a bug isn’t a sustainable solution. But it’s also unrealistic to think switching is viable.

Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by oehpr on Saturday July 12, 2025 @07:14PM (#44546025)
Keep chrome installed and fall back iff forced to. That way the majority of usage statistics show up as other browsers so when developers are making guesses at which browser to support, those statistics will push them away from chrome.

Additionally: you would be surprised how infrequently you have to switch to chrome

Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by zos_kia on Saturday July 12, 2025 @07:20PM (#44546064)
Can't remember the last time I actually had to open a website on chrome for compatibility reasons. Is that still a thing?
Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by Steven420 on Saturday July 12, 2025 @07:34PM (#44546150)
I only have to switch to chrome for e-transfers. Everything else seems to work
Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by julianz on Saturday July 12, 2025 @08:39PM (#44546479)
The F1TV site didn't work on Firefox earlier this year but send to be fixed now, other than that I haven't had any issues.
Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by Andrew_nenakhov on Saturday July 12, 2025 @07:35PM (#44546157)
Btw, the 'website requires chrome browser' problem is often solved if you just make Firefox user agent say it is Chrome.
Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by XorNot on Saturday July 12, 2025 @07:43PM (#44546195)
The problem is this needs to be a standard Firefox feature.
Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by 8n4vidtmkvmk on Saturday July 12, 2025 @08:53PM (#44546540)
There's one site I have to switch to Firefox for. And it's a big one that handles a lot of money, so that's kind of surprising. Can't log into their site in chrome, no matter how hard I try. Nor edge.
Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by bayindirh on Saturday July 12, 2025 @07:23PM (#44546084)
For me “switching” is to start using something else rather than Firefox, so switching from Chrome is viable.
Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by slenk on Saturday July 12, 2025 @07:27PM (#44546107)
Most sites let you ignore that, but just keep like Ungoogled Chromium around as a backup
Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by tankenmate on Saturday July 12, 2025 @07:15PM (#44546030)
By that logic attempting to change anything at all is not viable; e pur si muove.
Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by userbinator on Saturday July 12, 2025 @09:09PM (#44546632)
Find who is responsible for such sites and send them strongly-worded emails. If it's a commerce site, tell them they just lost a potential customer. In my experience it's usually the trendchasing web developers who have drunk the Goog-Aid and are trying to convince the others in the organisation to use "modern" (read: controlled by Google) features and waste time implementing these changes --- instead of the "deprecated" feature that's been there for decades and will work in just about any browser, and the management is usually more driven by $$$ so anything that affects the bottom line is going to get their attention. I've even offered to "fix" their site for free to make it more accessible.
Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by janalsncm on Sunday July 13, 2025 @04:00PM (#44553173)
This is common on internal company websites. Devs only support chrome officially.
Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by yard2010 on Sunday July 13, 2025 @03:48AM (#44548350)
"This site requires Internet Explorer 6 to work"