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oneeyedpigeon on March 22, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to prot...

At least that might stop Twitter refusing to serve User-Agents it doesn't recognise.

floatboth on March 22, 2021 | [–]

There was a brief period of time last year when Twitch streams broke for me, turns out because my UA includes "FreeBSD" instead of an OS they know about. Eventually this was fixed.

sneak on March 22, 2021 | [–]

How long until we see a CFAA prosecution based solely on providing a UA in the request that you're not "supposed" to use?

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