• okr765OPA
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    Yeah they’re not blocking access or anything, I was just infuriated by the message

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      they’re not blocking access

      Wait what? Then wtf is the point of that message? “Your operating system is not supported”, except that it totally fucking is.

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        I’d assume it is not supported as in if you ask them for tech support and they realize you’re not running Windows they’ll happily tell you to pound sand.

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        Yeah, and browsers are running the same engines across platforms, so there are very few differences between using Firefox on Linux and using Firefox on Windows. My best guess is what @Chronographs@lemmy.zip said, that it’s just allowlisting new Windows user agents and was intended to target people running ancient versions of Windows.

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      I’m guessing it’s the default message for any non-whitelisted os and it was written assuming you’ll be on an old version of windows and not linux