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Re:Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA by Fluorescence on Monday July 14, 2025 @07:11AM (#44558744)
Too often the only sites I find are broken in Firefox are "necessary" things like financial and medical things. I rarely see any issue with hobby and nonsense sites where "laziness" might be excusable.

It's the perverse incentives where companies with a captive audience that can't easily churn will be the ones that ship broken half-arsed sites and not care.

One phenomena I am seeing more that makes me boil with fury is infinite captchas in Firefox. If Firefox increasingly gets excluded "for security" then...

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Re:Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA by disgruntledphd2 on Monday July 14, 2025 @08:16AM (#44559267)
> One phenomena I am seeing more that makes me boil with fury is infinite captchas in Firefox

This is driven by enhanced tracking prevention. If you turn that off for the respective site, then it goes away.

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Re:Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA by Fluorescence on Monday July 14, 2025 @09:02AM (#44559710)
Good to know.

Pretty sure I try disabling protections in such situations but maybe not. I returned to the last site that did it to me to try this out (on a different machine) and it didn't captcha me at all with protections on! Ugh.

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Re:Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA by disgruntledphd2 on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @06:15AM (#44569663)
That's so weird. I've ended up just disabling ATP whenever I get a captcha. Super annoying but less annoying than the captchas.
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Re:Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA by pessimizer on Monday July 14, 2025 @08:29AM (#44559387)
> One phenomena I am seeing more that makes me boil with fury is infinite captchas in Firefox. If Firefox increasingly gets excluded "for security" then...

I can't figure out if this is true. I certainly get constant captchas, but everybody else I know who uses firefox is also ad-blocking, dropping cookies, resisting fingerprinting, forging referers, downloading embedded videos, etc. etc... A lot of us look like anonymous bot traffic because we are trying to look like anonymous bot traffic. I don't know what the solution would be.

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