You’re the asshole for expecting an open source project to have to spend all their time supporting every possible niche browser/configuration, rather than spending time building their actual product that people want to use.
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raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Website written by an asshole tho - crawler protection that excludes browsers without javascript enabled.
miridius@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Because disabling JS is unheard of in the open source world, right?
They implemented a feature that breaks the website for people who otherwise have no issues while providing no functional value to the site “rather than spending time building their actual product that people want to use.”
It’s one thing to expect them to do special work to support an uncommon configuration, and it’s another to feel frustrated that they did extra work to break a less common but still unremarkable configuration.
I entirely support people not wanting bots to scrape their shit, but there’s a handful of websites I use that use this specific blocking software and it frequently gets angry and blocks me if I’m on my phone for no good reason. It’s annoying, and getting angry at the user for being upset that your website is broken is about the only thing more unreasonable than demanding that an open source developer do work for you for free.
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Yeah same, I’m on Brave and Anubis is blocking me. Inb4 I am told to commit sudoku for using Brave, yes I know the owner sucks
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
If you know, why still use it?
Not like theres a bazillion other chrome browsers and you could probably use any other browser (depending on the add-ons you really need)Electricd@lemmybefree.net 4 weeks ago
Because the other browsers have less features, and the other owners suck as well. As for the browser itself, Brave it probably the best chrome-based one out there for desktop
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
I’m trying to take a progress over perfection approach to these things. My number one priority was to get off of Chrome and Firefox is pretty rough on mobile. I tried a few things and Brave was the one with the best experience, especially because of the ad blocking without needing to mess around with a bunch of plugins. I figure I can go deeper into that iceberg over time. What do you use?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Really? I am using Firefox on mobile (Android) and I’d say it’s pretty much fine for most of what I use it for.
Plugins (DarkReader, ublock, TWP) work very well and the overall experience is totally acceptable.
Recently even 3rd party passkey support was enabled, stopping google from intercepting the requests.
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 4 weeks ago
Same problem here but JS is enabled
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 4 weeks ago
Anubis is a PoW open source crawling/DDoS protection
mouse@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Try contacting the Forgejo admin, they can enable the HTTP meta refresh challenge, though it does have a higher false positive rate. anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/…/metarefresh