I know I can spoof my useragent, it’s just ridiculous that such a massive app doesn’t support an equally massive browser.
That’s okay, I use Firefox and don’t support Snapchat.
Just another feature imo
Try the user agent switcher add-on. The volume of times I’ve changed my agent to chrome and had a site work perfectly is infuriating.
I don’t understand why Firefox doesn’t have a button for that
My problem was that CloudFlare refused to validate me when I have it enabled. I could have stock FF UA, but if my user agent switcher addon isn’t disabled then I didn’t get to use Crunchyroll and a few other sporadic sites.
I haven’t been able to use a cloudfare website for a while now. If they’re going to make me go through hoops because I refuse to use chrome, fuck it, they don’t get my business.
FF works with CloudFlare sites, just not with that extension enabled. It doesn’t make sense that they’d purposely block sites if you have a UA switcher that isn’t even changing the UA so I’m hoping it’s a bug that will get fixed
I have a setting somewhere that pisses off cloudflare then. It doesn’t matter what I do with FF, it just keeps making me click the checkmark over and over.
That was my experience as well until I read a comment on Reddit that disabling the UA switcher addon in Firefox’s settings fixes it. It’s really annoying having to enable it every time I want to pretend to use Chrome but at least I can watch anime again.
I was sure I disabled it, but next time I need it, I’ll make sure. Thank you.
it depends on how much anti-fingerprinting you’ve setup. I only get endless captchas from every site and ended up just using an extension that blocks all crimeflare sites and redirects to an archive.org version of the page.
I still doesn’t work even if I have changed user agent to chrome. I guess they have some other mechanism to find the browser.
They said they know about that, but it’s ridiculous.
I imagine the overlap of people who use Snapchat and people who use Firefox is pretty small, they probably see such a small amount of users with Firefox and they just decided not to support it.
In this day and age it’s more work to explicitly not support a browser than it is to support it…
Another side I haven’t seen mentioned
It might be easier to track users in Chrome. If even a few users open it in chrome instead of Firefox, that’s a benefit for them
Yeah, I’m sure Chrome works well with Google Analytics tools which seem to be on every site nowadays…
Sort of. I imagine the idea is they only need to test on Chromium-based browsers.
So often just swapping the user agent from Firefox to Chrome makes these sites work flawlessly. So they’re putting in extra code to detect Firefox and serve a “we don’t support your browser” page when they could just… not. And if a user complains about X, they could say we don’t test on Firefox, try on Chrome.
Yeah, but by putting up the “we don’t support this” banner, they won’t have to deal with the complaints in the first place.
It’s also possible they want people to use Chromium for telemetry or other data-collection reasons, not sure.
I wonder if it’s possible that they’re paid money by Google to not support Firefox?
Even if true, do you support this funnel approach?
yeah, snapchat is far from open source and privacy respecting 😂
I imagine the overlap of people who use Snapchat and people who use Firefox is pretty small
I argue it's 0, as it does not work.
It’s a joke, I know what you are meaning; you meant using both separately.
I would simply not use the service. Capitalism says good services are rewarded for being good, the inverse would be they dont get to make money off of you for a bad service
but capitalism doesnt work
It doesn’t work for us but its clearly working for someone.
As @denschub@schub.social always emphasises: make sure to file a report at https://webcompat.com!
We ask everyone to file their reports, because all reports are really useful. Even if we don’t respond to every single thing you report, it’s a signal that we’re processing in many different ways. (…) please, keep reporting all issues you see, because every single blip counts!
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1de7bu1/comment/l8ghtr2/
never knew about this but I’m definitely going to start using it
@Vincent @potentiallynotfelix I mean, yeah, but we know about Snapchat. https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/107613
Snapchat has a web client? :o
doesnt that kind of defeat the point ?
what even is the point of snapchat?
well it was sending nudes at first, before people realized that nothing really got erased
Dunno never saw the appeal anyway
you can’t snap, can only messageedit: im wrong you can snap now.
based sway user
How can you tell? Looks like either i3 or sway, and that’s coming from another sway user lol
i3 you mean…
Can you get away with a change of the “User Agent”?Edit (: Reading is hard. I only read the title and looked at the screenshot, without reading the body text of the post. So my question is answered. Sorry for wasting time.)But it’s the fourth most popular browser according to your chart. Considering there’s probably 2 billion browser users, that’s something in the ballpark of 40 million users. 20 if you say 1 billion.
Wow Firefox just barely beats out Samsung internet and opera???
I knew chrome had the majority but I didn’t know even edge was above Firefox in market share.
There’s like 30 people at the company I work for. 8 of them use Firefox only, about 10 of them use Firefox half of the time when chrome breaks or hogs every resource possible.
On desktop (which is what the website in question is mostly loaded in) is 6,6%. Still isnt huge but definitely more significant.
… Snapchat for web??? Wtf
I can reach the login page on FF Mobile with user agent switcher + desktop mode
Well keep logging in via firefox. Send them a message
I just want to say, this is less bad than websites requiring that you use internet explorer.
Those were dark days.
It’s just slightly less bad cause it requires a chromium based browser
Oh yeah, I’m not saying it’s good, just less bad.
Now instead of being crammed into a single option, you get the “choice” of several (probably equally bad) options.
Honestly, everything should just conform to standards, and it’s up to the browser to support those standards. If your browser doesn’t support it, well, good luck.
Not this bullshit of “your browser isn’t compatible with this website”. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
