Tell HN: Lobste.rs blocking the Brave browser

14 pointsposted 16 hours ago
by prmph

Item id: 44557717

13 Comments

kesor

16 hours ago

As the message says, this is not new.

When you want to open this website using Brave anyway, you have to change your User Agent. You can do that by opening "Network conditions" in the three-dotted menu in developer tools, and setting a different User Agent value.

runjake

5 hours ago

Changing the user agent doesn't work for me. I remember pushcx saying (on one of his Twitch streams or something) that they do additional fingerprinting to block Brave.

prmph

15 hours ago

I see. And I thought Brave was quite trustworthy, maybe not so much now. Firefox not working well for me: It is resource hog. Guess I'll need to keep looking.

kubanczyk

11 hours ago

> Firefox not working well for me: It is resource hog.

Anecdata to the contrary: on my Android devices I've switched from Brave to Firefox maybe a year ago (exactly because of the Lobste.rs story) and I found out performance to be completely acceptable for my needs.

And both solve youtube ads, which is how high I set the bar.

prmph

4 hours ago

I see. Firefox is the only browser on my machine (Macbook Air M1) that regularly consumes massive amounts of RAM, typically like 4 GB or more.

al_borland

11 hours ago

I never trusted Brave. This validates my skepticism.