discover.com login failure without ua override

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meatloaf
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discover.com login failure without ua override

Post by meatloaf » 2020-12-29, 22:59

It looks like the main login page on discover.com is doing some user agent sniffing to determine 'secure' browsers. By default, the site disallows my login due to the browser not 'being secure'.
I added the following user agent override for myself:

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general.useragent.override.discover.com;Mozilla/5.0 (%OS_SLICE% rv:99.9) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/99.9 (Pale Moon)
Of course, the site allows me to log in with Pale Moon again after adding this.
I copied it from the built-in dropbox override. Frankly, I'm not sure what the best override to use is, but I wanted to at least report this as a site-specific issue.
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New Tobin Paradigm

Re: discover.com login failure without ua override

Post by New Tobin Paradigm » 2020-12-29, 23:13

You do realize Firefox will pass version 99 this year right?
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