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Tell HN: Lobste.rs blocking the Brave browser

15 points prmph | 1 comments | 14 Jul 25 08:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.266s | 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.

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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.

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1. runjake ◴[14 Jul 25 19:19 UTC] No.44564194[source]▶
Changing the user agent doesn't work for me. I remember pushcx saying (on one of his Twitch streams or something) that they do additional fingerprinting to block Brave.