←back to thread

Tell HN: Lobste.rs blocking the Brave browser

15 points prmph | 2 comments | 14 Jul 25 08:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.414s | source

This is the message I got:

> Lobsters has blocked the Brave browser since a scam in 2019. We still block it because they lie about following standards to they scrape and sell copies of websites. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but they have previously targeted Lobsters by name and have a years-long pattern of bad behavior.

Show context
kesor ◴[14 Jul 25 09:00 UTC] No.44557832[source]▶
As the message says, this is not new.

When you want to open this website using Brave anyway, you have to change your User Agent. You can do that by opening "Network conditions" in the three-dotted menu in developer tools, and setting a different User Agent value.

replies(2): >>44558110 #>>44564194 #
prmph ◴[14 Jul 25 09:42 UTC] No.44558110[source]▶
I see. And I thought Brave was quite trustworthy, maybe not so much now. Firefox not working well for me: It is resource hog. Guess I'll need to keep looking.
replies(2): >>44560153 #>>44560583 #
1. kubanczyk ◴[14 Jul 25 13:42 UTC] No.44560153[source]▶
> Firefox not working well for me: It is resource hog.

Anecdata to the contrary: on my Android devices I've switched from Brave to Firefox maybe a year ago (exactly because of the Lobste.rs story) and I found out performance to be completely acceptable for my needs.

And both solve youtube ads, which is how high I set the bar.

replies(1): >>44565096 #
2. prmph ◴[14 Jul 25 20:49 UTC] No.44565096[source]▶
I see. Firefox is the only browser on my machine (Macbook Air M1) that regularly consumes massive amounts of RAM, typically like 4 GB or more.