bug#47276: Stuck at Cloudflare 'browser checks'

2021-05-11 Thread bill-auger
this is the browser/host info from a real windows10 system running upstream firefox: codeName=Mozilla appName=Netscape appVersion=5.0 (Windows) oscpu=Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64 platform=Win32 product=Gecko buildID=2018100100 userAgent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64;

bug#47276: Stuck at Cloudflare 'browser checks'

2021-05-11 Thread Mart Rootamm
It appears, that Cloudflare might have been designed to detect a mismatch between what the string reports itself as, and what the oscpu and platform strings say. > whitelisting the host in "Manage Permissions" under > "Cookies and Site Data" This whitelisting works via View Page Info, too, where

bug#47276: Stuck at Cloudflare 'browser checks'

2021-05-10 Thread bill-auger
i may have found a solution for this there has been a long-standing debate in parabola, as to whether spoofing the user-agent is a good anti-fingerprinting measure - people tend to agree that it probably does more harm than good for example, 'IceCat' in the user-agent string, actually presents

bug#47276: Stuck at Cloudflare 'browser checks'

2021-03-24 Thread bill-auger
On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 23:43:50 +0200 Mart wrote: > Right-click the GitLab page, click on View Page Info, go to > Permissions tab, scroll to the Cookie section, uncheck the default, > and make sure Allow (radio button) is checked. thanks for the suggestion; but it does not work - if it did, i would

bug#47276: Stuck at Cloudflare 'browser checks'

2021-03-24 Thread Mart Rootamm
Right-click the GitLab page, click on View Page Info, go to Permissions tab, scroll to the Cookie section, uncheck the default, and make sure Allow (radio button) is checked. In some cases, there's a Tools > Page Info menu option to access the same page properties window. Allowing cookies like

bug#47276: Stuck at Cloudflare 'browser checks'

2021-03-20 Thread bill-auger
i dont have a solution for this; but it turned up on the parabola bug tracker some months ago, conflated with other similar issues, which affected icecat and parabola's iceweasel, probably since v81 - i dont believe that the problem existed when iceweasel was v78, so it is probably not the browser

bug#47276: Stuck at Cloudflare 'browser checks'

2021-03-20 Thread João Pedro Simas
In various websites that use cloudflare's 'browser checks', IceCat 78.8.0 running on GNU Guix get's stuck in a loop, in which the page gets reloading indefinetely. The particular website I found this issue is gitlab.com, in particular it's sign in page ( https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in). I've