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[–] Drewmeister@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I'm relatively new to Linux. What is the preferred solution when a website demands a chrome-based browser? I installed Chromium for these cases, but is that frowned upon? My daily driver is tor-based and it's rare but not unheard of for a website to complain.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What is the preferred solution when a website demands a chrome-based browser?

Lie to the website

[–] moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 19 points 9 months ago

Chromium. Ungoogled Chromium if you really hate Google. Or Firefox with a user agent switcher.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 17 points 9 months ago (5 children)

What is the preferred solution when a website demands a chrome-based browser?

I don't know what websites y'all are going to where this is such a commonly reported problem, but I've been using Firefox for over 10 years and I've literally never once seen this problem.

[–] Quatlicopatlix@feddit.org 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Trying to configure my keyboard through the VIA site. It needs HID and mozilla wont do it because unsafe. I get that it is not so smart to expose your usb devices to your browser but being able to enable it for a session would also be fine...so i had to install chrome.

[–] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah only chrome has the webusb support, I use ungoogled chromium whenever I need to use webusb.

[–] JPAKx4@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Use an extension that spoofs the user agent, usually works fine (for what I came across at least).

[–] MxRott@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-possum/

[–] Drewmeister@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I've had a few that will work on Firefox if not on tor. I know one website (my mortgage company) that specifically asks for "Chrome-based" and lists several such browsers as options.

[–] Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago

There was a period Netflix drm refused to run on Firefox

[–] brb@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Teams forces you to use chrome or their god awful desktop app

Mobilepay app requires you to have chrome installed to login to it

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Recommended actions include boycotting the organisation and/or turning your internet off for 2 weeks to recover.

[–] shadshack@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

I use Vivaldi on the rare occurrence I need to flash an ESP board, since Firefox doesn't support WebSerial. It's the most privacy-centric chromium-based browser I've heard of.