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		sebzim4500 12 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turn... How does Cloudflare know you are using the fork? Can you not just set the user agent to match firefox's (or even chrome's for that matter)

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noplacelikehome 1 hour ago [–]

Quite likely fingerprinting detection, which is remaining firmly enabled.

sebzim4500 46 minutes ago | [–]

How does that work technically? Presumably a fork of firefox is almost indistinguishable from firefox from Cloudflare's perspective?

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