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Hello, I started to experience a problem with Mull and Duolingo (and also bromite) that started about 1 month ago.

Basically Duolingo tells me that my browser is not supported but it worked perfectly fine before. Anyone experienced this issue? I can't find an issue on mull repo apparently about this specific issue. Dunno if it is something about resisting fingerprint but I wonder why that happens..

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (8 children)

what on gods sake are they doing so special that requires those browsers explicitly

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I'm guessing they don't want to test on any other browsers, so it's easier just to say that those aren't supported. Most likely it works on others, you just need to spoof the agent.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This is definitely the case, but I wonder why companies don't add a button, such as "Access website without support", that would get you to the site while clearly telling you that any technical problems (of which, in 99% of cases, there will be none, since all of this seems like supporting Google internet dominance) will be ignored by support.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sir, this is the internet. Morons will still complain about broken things in public forums even if you make them click through multiple dialogue boxes and popups with warnings in flashing text.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Fair enough. But again, I seriously doubt that Duolingo uses something not supported in Firefox..

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