I know I can spoof my useragent, it’s just ridiculous that such a massive app doesn’t support an equally massive browser.

  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    764·
    3 months ago

    Try the user agent switcher add-on. The volume of times I’ve changed my agent to chrome and had a site work perfectly is infuriating.

    • TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world
      6·
      3 months ago

      My problem was that CloudFlare refused to validate me when I have it enabled. I could have stock FF UA, but if my user agent switcher addon isn’t disabled then I didn’t get to use Crunchyroll and a few other sporadic sites.

    • whoareu@lemmy.ca
      3·
      3 months ago

      I still doesn’t work even if I have changed user agent to chrome. I guess they have some other mechanism to find the browser.

  • Dog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    3 months ago

    You should submit something to the webcompat website. It would help and they’ll contact Snapchat and see what they can do.

  • Vincent@feddit.nl
    28·
    3 months ago

    As @denschub@schub.social always emphasises: make sure to file a report at https://webcompat.com!

    We ask everyone to file their reports, because all reports are really useful. Even if we don’t respond to every single thing you report, it’s a signal that we’re processing in many different ways. (…) please, keep reporting all issues you see, because every single blip counts!

    https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1de7bu1/comment/l8ghtr2/

    • toastal@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 months ago

      You are supposed to do feature detection, not user agent detection since it is easily spoofed, isn’t realiable, & doesn’t account for literally all the alternative UAs that can support it. This is bad/lazy practice.

      Fx doesn’t always have all the features you need, but often it usually does & where I have seen this as being deployed is management saying it isn’t worth the effort to support. Just having one person on the team running Fx is usually enough to catch the game-breaking bugs.

      • refalo@programming.dev
        1·
        3 months ago

        FYI navigator.platform and friends will still return Linux, even in Tor Browser… so it’s still trivially easy to detect your OS, Browser etc. and block that even without the user agent.

        • toastal@lemmy.ml
          1·
          3 months ago

          That’s still not feature detection & is in the exact same sniffing category

  • Wave@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    3 months ago

    I would simply not use the service. Capitalism says good services are rewarded for being good, the inverse would be they dont get to make money off of you for a bad service

  • jbk@discuss.tchncs.de
    15·
    3 months ago

    doesn’t it utilize some fancy camera APIs or whatever? last time I tried it on firefox with a spoofed user agent there were errors in the console

  • dorumon@lemmy.world
    13·
    3 months ago

    It actually works just fine if you change your user agent. BTW Snapchat likes to break support for Firefox or re-enable support all the time. Don’t know what their issue is but whatever.

    • potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.idOPEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Doesn’t for me for some reason… I change to chrome on windows and just get an “Oops something went wrong…” I think it might be because I forgot my password and tried like 10 of them so it locked me out, however.

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    I just want to say, this is less bad than websites requiring that you use internet explorer.

    Those were dark days.

      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Oh yeah, I’m not saying it’s good, just less bad.

        Now instead of being crammed into a single option, you get the “choice” of several (probably equally bad) options.

        Honestly, everything should just conform to standards, and it’s up to the browser to support those standards. If your browser doesn’t support it, well, good luck.

        Not this bullshit of “your browser isn’t compatible with this website”. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    9·
    3 months ago

    Can you get away with a change of the “User Agent”? Edit (: Reading is hard. I only read the title and looked at the screenshot, without reading the body text of the post. So my question is answered. Sorry for wasting time.)