TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agoIn an alternate timeline...lemmy.worldimagemessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1499arrow-down19file-text
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A Mozilla employee recently released a Firefox addon to change the user agent to Chrome on sites the user enables it on. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-mask/ https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1eic7bj/chroe_mask_makes_firefox_wear_a_mask_to_look_like/
minus-squareSprokes@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up14·2 months agoDoesn’t that causes issues with sites using Cloudflare anti bot protection? But maybe my add-on was sending a different one for each request. I am using User Agent Switcher. I disabled it and only enable it on YouTube.
minus-squaredelirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down2·edit-22 months agoIt depends how horribly the website has misconfigured cloudflare. I can log into cloudflare’s website. Generally I prefer websites that don’t use cloudflare. Its a massive security risk
minus-squarestom@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoHow is Cloudflare a massive security risk?
minus-squaredelirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down5·2 months agoHow are they not? They are a MITM and a company based in The US.
Doesn’t that causes issues with sites using Cloudflare anti bot protection? But maybe my add-on was sending a different one for each request. I am using User Agent Switcher. I disabled it and only enable it on YouTube.
It depends how horribly the website has misconfigured cloudflare. I can log into cloudflare’s website.
Generally I prefer websites that don’t use cloudflare. Its a massive security risk
How is Cloudflare a massive security risk?
How are they not? They are a MITM and a company based in The US.
You’re not wrong.