Pale Moon doesn't pass the Cerberus challenge

[nia_netbsd]

Hi, I attempted to access https://neuters.de/ (apparently a lightweight frontend to the news site Reuters) on a fresh profile with default settings. It is stuck on:

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Performing browser checks...

Difficulty: 12, Speed: 0kH/s

This site is using Cerberus, apparently a JavaScript-based proof-of-work thing similar to Anubis that uses "modern JavaScript features".

[adoxa]

It's failing to compile WebAssembly (bad type), I don't think there's any workaround for that.

[vannilla]

Weird, the verification process doesn't even start yet there are no errors anywhere I can see.
While I was writing this post I investigated a bit and there's a GitHub issue about Firefox ESR opened in August.
It's best to open a separate issue specifically for UXP if anyone wants to report it there, but it might or might not be related.

Edit: got ninja'd by adoxa with the real solution, but if anyone wants to really access the websites reporting this failure might be a good idea anyway.

[jobbautista9]

Reported in a new issue: https://github.com/sjtug/cerberus/issues/24

Off-topic:
At this point if we are going to need WebAssembly for a lightweight frontend I'm writing that doesn't require JS on its own I'd rather return to Gopherspace than try keeping it in the web...

[LightQuantum]

It's failing to compile WebAssembly (bad type), I don't think there's any workaround for that.

Author of Cerberus here! Could you please let me know where you see this error? I'm trying to reproduce the issue, but what I get is "ReferenceError: WebAssembly is not defined" instead, even if I enable wasm.

[adoxa]

Apparently it was fixed last month, so it's up to neuters to update to 0.4.5.

[jobbautista9]

Author of Cerberus here! Could you please let me know where you see this error? I'm trying to reproduce the issue, but what I get is "ReferenceError: WebAssembly is not defined" instead, even if I enable wasm.

For reference the CompileError is seen in the Toolkit Error Console, which is found via Tools => Developer Tools => Error Console in the menu bar. The Cerberus developer was able to see it in a Linux version of Pale Moon after failing to see it in macOS.

It does seem odd though that macOS wouldn't work and Linux would when it comes to WebAssembly (or at least attempting to compile it). @dbsoft, can you please see if your Mac has the same issue of not being able to reproduce the CompileError?

And about Neuters I have sent the webmaster (listed in the About page) there an email. Hopefully they respond and upgrade their Cerberus.