GNU bug report logs - #58011
Jitsi, Bowser, and IceCat's user agent string

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Reported by: Michael McMahon <michael <at> fsf.org>

Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 18:51:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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Message #32 received at 58011 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: bill-auger <bill-auger <at> peers.community>
To: Michael McMahon <michael <at> fsf.org>
Cc: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>, 58011 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#58011: Jitsi, Bowser, and IceCat's user agent string
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 01:24:53 -0400
On Thu, 22 Sep 2022 22:50:06 -0400 Michael wrote:
> the user claims that the page worked after they 
> disabling privacy.resistFingerprinting.

i looked into jitsi-meet specifically - with parabola's icecat
102 (with the patch to avoid spoofing the user-agent) -
jitsi-meet does not work

> "It looks like you're using a browser we don't fully support."

setting 'privacy.resistFingerprinting' to 'false' makes it work
- so this may be a different issue than gitlab.com and the
cloudflare browser check, or a combination of both




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