• Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.ml
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    It’s especially moronic that Cloudflare thinks everyone using Tor is trying to DDOS every site.

    Do you know how fucking slow Tor is? You couldn’t DDOS an Arduino with it.

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    Actually, the top one is the logo of the chromium browser engine, but the bottom one is not the logo of the Gecko browser engine. That’s the logo of SpiderMonkey, Firefox’s Javascript engine (Chromium uses V8).

    This is the logo for Gecko: Gecko logo

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      Firefox doesn’t even use Gecko anymore, it uses Quantum. I think it still uses spidermonkey though.

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        This is not correct.

        Firefox still uses Gecko for its HTML engine. Quantum was a project to incorporate some learnings from Servo, and other larger performance projects, into Firefox components, including Gecko.

        Just an aside, but Servo was never intended to replace Gecko, and was only intended to be a R&D project for improving some Firefox components. This was due to the long-tail of web compatibility that would be required to make Servo a suitable replacement for Gecko.

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    Do we, as an industry, have such short attention span, that we forgot how Microsoft abused their monopoly in the 1990s to force everyone to use Internet Explorer? Now that Google is doing the exact same thing, nobody seems to mind.

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      Because the tech gigacorporations have literally spent the last three decades brainwashing us into accepting shit like that and even convincing us that it’s better this way.

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    It’s time to get rid of user-agent strings that declare anything other than desktop, mobile, or html version.

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      99% of sites only need to know your screen aspect ratio and maybe available input devices, can’t think of a good reason to share anything else

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      The biggest offender is, surprisingly, cloudflare. They will straight up refuse to serve you any site if your user agent is not one of the mainstream ones. It’s not even “find the traffic light to prove you’re human”, but a page basically saying “fuck you, go away”.

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          what is more likely to be a bot? a unique and trackable useragent for a semi-niche browser engine, or a vanilla Chromium+Windows which half of everyone uses ?