PM is just as bad as IE - apparently

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PM is just as bad as IE - apparently

Post by Octopuss » 2025-02-12, 09:11

This cannot get anymore hillarious.
I opened the website of our town, and got a popup saying I was using IE and should upgrade to supported browser (with the typical trio of terror list).
I really wonder WTF is the website doing. It can't even be reading the stupid useragent, because there's no way it could figure PM was IE, right?
https://www.melnik.cz/
Can anyone figure anything out? I'm just curious. The website is horrible and I don't give a shit about it, but I'm dying to know WTF are they doing.
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Re: PM is just as bad as IE - apparently

Post by adoxa » 2025-02-12, 09:24

No popup in Basilisk. Ah, it looks for "rv:11" in the user agent; Basilisk hasn't updated yet and is still "rv:102", but PM is now "rv:115". There you go, dumb test.
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Re: PM is just as bad as IE - apparently

Post by Moonchild » 2025-02-12, 13:48

maybe write to their mailroom with a complaint ;P
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Re: PM is just as bad as IE - apparently

Post by Octopuss » 2025-02-12, 15:45

I did, but only to tell them they were stupid and incompetent (in a slightly nicer words).

Any website that has that dumb Google translate bar you can't get rid of is guaranteed to be put together by a complete imbecile and should be nuked from the orbit (including the author).
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Re: PM is just as bad as IE - apparently

Post by back2themoon » 2025-02-12, 16:27

LuftWafflePilot wrote: ↑
2025-02-12, 15:45
I did, but only to tell them they were stupid and incompetent (in a slightly nicer words).
That usually doesn't work, and understandably so. Consider changing your tactics. :)
LuftWafflePilot wrote: ↑
2025-02-12, 15:45
Any website that has that dumb Google translate bar you can't get rid of is guaranteed to be put together by a complete imbecile and should be nuked from the orbit (including the author).
Agreed. But you can get rid of it I think, by adding the code below to uBO/My Filters: (applies to all websites)

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##.skiptranslate
translate.googleapis.*/*/main*js
edit: some blank space seems to persist on that website (which is unusual), but the annoying bar is gone.
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Re: PM is just as bad as IE - apparently

Post by Moonchild » 2025-02-12, 16:29

LuftWafflePilot wrote: ↑
2025-02-12, 15:45
 Any website that has that dumb Google translate bar you can't get rid of is guaranteed to be put together by a complete imbecile and should be nuked from the orbit (including the author).
For the record: that bar was the only way I could make any sense of the site, not understanding Czech, and finding their mail room e-mail address.
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Re: PM is just as bad as IE - apparently

Post by back2themoon » 2025-02-12, 16:46

... and adding this below to the My rules section, will take care of the empty space as well: (for this website alone)

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www.melnik.cz translate.googleapis.com * block
Of course, it can be tweaked to work on all websites. Pretty much everything can be tweaked. At least for now...
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Re: PM is just as bad as IE - apparently

Post by Octopuss » 2025-02-12, 20:12

How do you guys know how to write these filters? None if it makes any sense to me :D
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Re: PM is just as bad as IE - apparently

Post by back2themoon » 2025-02-12, 20:23

You don't need to know all that much. All can be done via UI alone: uBO's Element Picker is your friend:

https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/Element-picker

Dynamic filtering, too:

https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/ ... -filtering
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