Started to get this message when accessing Reddit. I use LibreWolf as a browser, which does indeed provide a more generic user agent to combat fingerprinting, but nothing out of the ordinary either (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0). Anyone else experiencing this?

Edit: seems to have resolved itself. Thanks for confirming I wasn’t doing anything wrong. Let’s hope this isn’t some new algorithm to test if for insufficient fingerprinting so Reddit can kick ad-resistant users.

  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
    23113·
    1 year ago

    Reddit is corrupt. It probably has something to do with them wanting to track you and they can’t track you if you have a blank user agent.

    Stay here at Lemmy where humans are respected as humans instead of data mines. Life is more dignified here at Lemmy.

    • KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca
      367·
      1 year ago

      Stay here at Lemmy where humans are respected as humans

      I saw a post a few days ago where one Lemmy user threatened to triangulate another user via IP, and then hurt them, because they said Linux doesn’t work out of the box as well as windows in their experience.

      This was on a main instance. The person didn’t get in any trouble.

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Was it a shit post? Don’t mistake me as being dismissive of threats, it’s just that “triangulate based on IP” sounds like a joke.

        • KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca
          61·
          1 year ago

          No, unfortunately. The guy seemed really mad. Calling the other guy a moron, idiot, and telling him to apologise. From what I could see from the comments, it seems like the one guy visited the angry guys website, and the guy threatened to use his IP to find out where he lived. Then used threats about how it’s nice to sleep at night without fear, and that if you piss the wrong people off you’ll know.

          All because the guy was having Linux issues and said windows worked better for them. I only found the thread because I’m also having the same issues lol.

          • 🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            The mad guy sounds tech illiterate anyway. Nowadays you can’t track people by IP anymore. Sure you get a city, maybe a city district and then what?

            To prove my point, here’s where my IP (Without VPN) will tell you where I live: Berlin. I live on the other side of the country compared to Berlin.

            These scriptkiddies are so pathetic .

        • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          112·
          1 year ago

          You can also see plenty of misogyny, non stop verbal abuse, etc.

          Lemmy is basically a playground for 13 year olds with development difficulties.

          I’m just going to highlight these two sentences, and ask you think really really hard about why this comment has more downvotes than upvotes.

        • KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca
          303·
          1 year ago

          Damn. Lemmy is hella doomed when a response to an insane thing someone else did on Lemmy is “who the fuck cares?”.

          Didn’t realize you support people threatening others based on a comment about an operating system.

              • Xeknos@lemmy.world
                55·
                1 year ago

                Eh, I kind of see where he’s coming from. My response to threats like that is “have fun storming the castle, fuckface.”

                • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
                  131·
                  1 year ago

                  For someone who doesn’t care, you sure can’t shut up about it.

                  Look how little I care guys. Hey you. Yeah, you. Did you know I don’t care? Totally don’t, 110%. Make sure to tell your friends how few fucks I give about all of this.

                  Why am I still talking about it? Clearly because I care so little. I learned early on that the more you talk about something, the less you care. My utter inability to stop talking about it is the supreme sign of my achieving the pinnacle of carelessness.

    • Zorro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      281·
      1 year ago

      That’s all well and good but now that the smoke cleared it’s a Twitter/Mastodon situation

      • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
        212·
        1 year ago

        Yeah. You’re not wrong.

        Ever since I discovered I can have infinite conversations with infinite people about infinite topics, I am addicted to this format.

        Now see how they exploit us 😡

        • KepBen@lemmy.world
          21·
          1 year ago

          I’m my golden socialist utopia online platforms would flourish freely with each new conversation.

      • Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml
        81·
        1 year ago

        I don’t quite understand what you mean. I know Twitter has kind of gone to hell, but beyond that I’m not sure.

        • folkrav@lemmy.ca
          71·
          1 year ago

          I think his point was that most conversations happen where people are, and people are still more on Twitter than Mastodon by multiple orders of magnitude even after the “exodus”.

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
      271·
      1 year ago

      Stay here at Lemmy where humans are respected as humans instead of data mines. Life is more dignified here at Lemmy.

      I like the sentiment, but it is so incredibly naive to think that there aren’t crawlers scraping every ounce of data from Lemmy as possible. While Lemmy itself may not be collecting user data (depending on who is hosting your home instances of choice), other data that is valuable can still be collected, particularly for LLM AI.

      If you can access it, the data scrapers have already crawled it.

    • Fades@lemmy.world
      131·
      1 year ago

      Just look at how Reddit uses fingerprinting, absolutely part of their tracking

    • Claidheamh@slrpnk.net
      8·
      1 year ago

      and they can’t track you if you have a blank user agent.

      They absolutely can. A blank user agent is a fingerprint like any other.