impossible access after a few pm updates

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impossible access after a few pm updates

Post by xlolitadabananax » 2025-08-22, 11:18

Hi, does anyone know why, when i try to open this website with the same ip on both browsers, nothing happens on palemoon ? (nothing sems to block it on ublock origin either..

on chrome:
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& pale moon:
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Re: impossible access after a few pm updates

Post by vannilla » 2025-08-22, 11:43

Works on my machine with eMatrix enabled and eMatrix disabled.
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Re: impossible access after a few pm updates

Post by Moonchild » 2025-08-22, 12:05

It's user-agent sniffing.
Our "Firefox compatibility" user-agent is apparently blacklisted by them and they serve empty content. If you select Gecko compatibility or Native in Preferences->advanced, the site works.

You can add a user-agent override for torrent9.to to work around this, e.g.

Code: Select all

general.useragent.override.torrent9.to
Mozilla/5.0 (%OS_SLICE% rv:6.7) Goanna/20250803 PaleMoon/33.8.1.2
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Re: impossible access after a few pm updates

Post by xlolitadabananax » 2025-08-22, 13:45

Thanks Moonchild but isn't getting rid of firefox compatibility for gecko or native involving more compatibility issues ?
i'll try your last method for now.

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Re: impossible access after a few pm updates

Post by Moonchild » 2025-08-22, 14:12

xlolitadabananax wrote:
2025-08-22, 13:45
Thanks Moonchild but isn't getting rid of firefox compatibility for gecko or native involving more compatibility issues ?
No, the option is literally only changing the way it identifies itself to websites. There are no other/functional differences in the browser for each option.
It may appear to change other things because of the way some websites respond to it, but on the browser side there are no other changes based on the compatibility mode. Also, do take into consideration that site-specific user-agents are more fine-grained and if a website pulls in code from external sites (as many do, these days), that the override will not change the identification for those sites, while the preferences method will change it for all sites that don't have an override already in place.
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