I had my suspicions that the issues I’ve been running into are mostly because of the worsening botting/scraping situation, and in part due to the general very slight preferential treatment Chromium browsers get on the wider Internet, where anything weird coming from Firefox automatically looks more suspicious because it’s an underrepresented browser already.
I typically just look up “Firefox Hardening Guide” and follow what looks like the best of the first few results every time I do a fresh install. Because of that, I don’t know exactly which guide I followed last, but this one echoes a lot of the steps I remember taking. I’ve since turned webRTC back on because it kind of broke discord(… I know, I know, discord is terrible for privacy but it’s where all my peeps are at!) Didn’t tweak everything outlined in guides such as the one linked, but pretty much whenever there was privacy to be gained seemingly without significant website breakage, I’d toggle it.
The user agent thing was bizarre, especially since it was also on Minecraft.net! I swapped to a generic Chrome on Windows agent and it instantly started working again and let me use the site as normal again. That said the user agent thing doesn’t always work… But the fact that it does sometimes may be a clue to why websites seem to hate my configuration.
I have found that it happens more frequently with sites I’ve either not been to before, or not visited for a long time… Again it does seem to go away after 20 minutes or so for any given website, I just find it weird that it seems to be happening more.
I might have been exaggerating the degree to which this happens… It’s been only around 5-10 occurrences since the start of the year, but it happened so rarely before that point in time I barely noticed. Could also be a coincidence, it’s just barely enough though that I’ve been starting to get suspicious and wonder if anyone else was having issues
But yeah no VPN or anything and it’s occurred across 3 of my devices, only thing in common was Firefox and that I’ve taken steps to harden it on all of them
I love the clickhole celebrity quotes