| Summary: | Can't circumvent Google's browser blocking with user agent manager | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] Falkon | Reporter: | Bernhard Rosenkränzer <bero> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | David Rosca <nowrep> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | jurajoravec, kevin.kofler |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 3.1.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | OpenMandriva | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | https://invent.kde.org/network/falkon/commit/ef77ef730b935568ac70baceef9cb0ce9bbd61f9 | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | 22.08.02 |
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Description
Bernhard Rosenkränzer
2019-12-23 02:31:08 UTC
The best advice I can give you is to move away from Google. Apart from changing user agent I do not know of any other way. Sure, there might be a way to block it or reverse engeneer their detection system but in such company as Google they can change it anytime they want. I also read about it, the best solution is to contact Google to remove it, or to contact some other influential organization to force them to disable it. > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i586; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/71.0
You have a mismatch there, 31.0 vs. 71.0. The string I get offered by Falkon 3.1.0 has both versions set to 57.0, and that works for me (and has worked for me ever since Google started doing this nonsense).
Update: Firefox 57.0 is no longer accepted now, so I changed it to 105.0 and that works: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:105.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/105.0 (for the domain accounts.google.com). (The Gecko/20100101 part is bogus, but they do not seem to check that.) Thank you for reporting back. In that case it seems like it is time to change the default Firefox and Safari UserAgents which are available in Falkon code (class UserAgentDialog) and update them to latest LTS versions. Git commit 9082587737bf6b5a51f31588be925899ce33e18b by Juraj Oravec. Committed on 02/10/2022 at 17:06. Pushed by jurajo into branch 'release/22.08'. Update Firefox version in user agent manager FIXED-IN: 22.08.02 Signed-off-by: Juraj Oravec <jurajoravec@mailo.com> M +1 -1 src/lib/preferences/useragentdialog.cpp https://invent.kde.org/network/falkon/commit/9082587737bf6b5a51f31588be925899ce33e18b Git commit ef77ef730b935568ac70baceef9cb0ce9bbd61f9 by Juraj Oravec. Committed on 02/10/2022 at 15:17. Pushed by jurajo into branch 'master'. Update Firefox version in user agent manager FIXED-IN: 22.08.02 Signed-off-by: Juraj Oravec <jurajoravec@mailo.com> M +1 -1 src/lib/preferences/useragentdialog.cpp https://invent.kde.org/network/falkon/commit/ef77ef730b935568ac70baceef9cb0ce9bbd61f9 Thank you for the quick fix. I can confirm that the user agent: "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0" that will be in the new presets with 22.08.02 is currently accepted by accounts.google.com. FYI, accounts.google.com now also uses the play.google.com domain for some reason, so you now have to set the same fake user agent also for play.google.com in addition to accounts.google.com. |