1 yr. ago • 86%

Twitch no longer supports Firefox ???

Yesterday (19/08/2023) everything worked fine. Today (20/08/2023) I can no longer login to Twitch using Firefox. I restarted browser and cleared cache. No change.

EDIT: I tried again after 30min and it works again. I have some privacy-oriented plugins but I don't play with custom useragent.

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I use LibreWolf, which is FF based, and they refuse to let me log in. All it takes is a User Agent spoofer set to Chrome, and it works.

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- Permanently Deleted
  
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#You can edit titles on Lemmy

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- Mildly Life changing
  
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  Now there's a community I'd follow!
  
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Hm weird chromium announces update to stop allowing ad blockers and suddenly no one allows FF to work in their website.

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- Just chiming in as a software engineer. My product DOES support Firefox, but there are some weird animation quirks that my team has been trying to solve, but with limited bandwidth and a full product backlog, it’s hard to justify spending too much time supporting a browser with such small global utilization. Especially since we’re using third party libraries like angular material, quirks on smaller browsers can be a nightmare to chase down
  
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  Oh I fully understand a smaller company having a website that says “some animations may not work with your browser” when it’s obviously easier to just do chromium as that covers almost every browser, but fully disabling the entire website when it works just fine as long as you tell Firefox to say it’s chrome is a different story.
  
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- They need that greed
  
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Someone else had the same problem. Check this thread for suggested solutions. https://lemmy.ml/post/3612554

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- "Solutions!?" Fuck that! Stop using Twitch!!!
  
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https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/supported-browsers?language=en_US#firefox

Twitch's official stance is to support the latest two versions of Firefox. Are you modifying your browser agent string at all? Or using any plugins that are privacy/ad-blocking related?

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- Or using any plugins that are privacy/ad-blocking related?
  
  I mean.... Of course.
  
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  I mean, that's probably the "problem." At least directly. The real problem is Twitch obviously, but it's not that Firefox isn't supported.
  
  Edit: so I guess it's not so much that it's not infuriating, but I would give up Twitch before Firefox.
  
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It is because you are resisting fingerprinting. You have to allow fingerprinting to watch twitch in a browser now.

Honestly, chatterio & streamlink is a way better combo.

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- If you dont mind whitelisting cookies for the twitch domain, you can allow finger printing, log in, choose to stay logged in for 30 days, then disable finger printing again. And then you'll only have to worry about it once a month.
  
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Step 1: Disable Twitch adblocker.

Step 2: Log in to Twitch.

Step 3: Re-enable Twitch adblocker.

That's what worked for me.

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I have had this exact issue for so long now. What always works for me is a simple reload.

Also unrelated, but still want to say it: Fuck every single browser based on chromium!

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Weird, I'm watching Twitch right now with Firefox.

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- Me, too. I haven't re-authed in a while, though. Do you get the error if you log out and log back in?
  
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It begins...

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- It's the deep breath before the plunge.
  
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Btw there's no point in using Privacy Badger if you already have uBlock Origin.

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- They don't block the same things every time, so it's perfectly fine to have both.
  
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  What does uBlock not block that isn't in its filters?
  
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- The more lines of defense the better
  
  EDIT: to the dumbfucks downvoting this comment I’ll clarify so you can learn something today :
  
  uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger are not the same thing. Privacy badger is focused on blocking trackers but wont block ads.
  
  uBlock origin will try to block trackers based on a list, but it might not be updated or exhaustivew That’s where privacy badger comes handy, it should pick up most of trackers that will go through uBlock origin.
  
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  That's not how this works.
  
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  That's not how it works.
  
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General rule of thumb: If you suddenly encounter issues with your webbrowser, always check with another, clean profile. Preferably without any extensions.

Especially site-specific ones.

Glad you got it working again.

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Check your enhanced Tracking protection settings and see if its at strict. Another user had the same problem here: https://lemmy.ml/post/3612554

It works perfectly on my end:

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Must be something local to you or twitch CDN. I just tried on the same version of FF from West Europe and it worked.

Have you by chance changed your useragent?

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Im on Developer edition and dont appear to be having an issue.

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Any pop-up or JavaScript blockers?

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Looks like a skill issue. Kewk.

Jk, no idea. I just went live and had chat open and a couple of streams open. All my Twitch extensions keep working. 🤔

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