• Firefox complaint

    From Maureen L Thomas@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 4 03:20:01 2024
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    I have used firefox for ages without a problem til now.  I am using the
    latest update of debian 12, on a HP computer that is using linux quite nicely.  Any way all of a sudden there are web pages that no longer open
    on firefox.  Credit Karma, our local Bob Evans rest., and a couple of others.  Is there a problem with firefox-esr 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1.


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    <p>I have used firefox for ages without a problem til now.  I am
    using the latest update of debian 12, on a HP computer that is
    using linux quite nicely.  Any way all of a sudden there are web
    pages that no longer open on firefox.  Credit Karma, our local Bob
    Evans rest., and a couple of others.  Is there a problem with
    firefox-esr 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1.</p>
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  • From eben@gmx.us@21:1/5 to Maureen L Thomas on Fri Oct 4 03:50:01 2024
    On 10/3/24 21:15, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
    I have used firefox for ages without a problem til now.  I am using the latest update of debian 12, on a HP computer that is using linux quite nicely.  Any way all of a sudden there are web pages that no longer open on firefox.  Credit Karma, our local Bob Evans rest., and a couple of others. Is there a problem with firefox-esr 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1.

    Both https://www.creditkarma.com/ and https://www.bobevans.com/ work for me.
    Perhaps you have a plugin they don't like?

    eben@cerberus:~$ apt list --installed | grep firef

    WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

    firefox-esr/stable-security,proposed-updates,now 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1 amd64 [installed]

    --
    We don't need a fountain of youth. We need a fountain of smart.
    -- Bill Mattocks's .sig

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  • From eben@gmx.us@21:1/5 to Maureen L Thomas on Fri Oct 4 06:10:01 2024
    On 10/3/24 22:42, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
    On 10/3/24 9:39 PM, eben@gmx.us wrote:
    On 10/3/24 21:15, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
    I have used firefox for ages without a problem til now.  I am using the >>> latest update of debian 12, on a HP computer that is using linux quite
    nicely.  Any way all of a sudden there are web pages that no longer open on
    firefox.  Credit Karma, our local Bob Evans rest., and a couple of others. >>> Is there a problem with firefox-esr 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1.

    Both https://www.creditkarma.com/ and https://www.bobevans.com/ work for me. >>  Perhaps you have a plugin they don't like?

    eben@cerberus:~$ apt list --installed | grep firef

    WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in
    scripts.

    firefox-esr/stable-security,proposed-updates,now 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1 amd64 >> [installed]

    This is what I got doing the apt:

    firefox-esr-l10n-en-ca/stable-security,proposed-updates,now 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1 all [installed] firefox-esr-l10n-en-gb/stable-security,proposed-updates,now 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1 all [installed] firefox-esr/stable-security,proposed-updates,now 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1 amd64 [installed,automatic]

    I'm not sure how to interpret two identical lines. Do they appear right
    next to each other in the output of apt list --installed?

    --
    I once successfully declined a departmental retreat, saying that on
    that day I planned instead to advance.
    -- Alan J. Rosenthal

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  • From Bret Busby@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 4 11:50:01 2024
    On 4/10/24 17:36, Michael Kjörling wrote:
    On 4 Oct 2024 00:04 -0400, from eben@gmx.us:
    eben@cerberus:~$ apt list --installed | grep firef

    WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

    firefox-esr/stable-security,proposed-updates,now 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1 amd64 [installed]

    This is what I got doing the apt:

    firefox-esr-l10n-en-ca/stable-security,proposed-updates,now 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1 all [installed]
    firefox-esr-l10n-en-gb/stable-security,proposed-updates,now 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1 all [installed]
    firefox-esr/stable-security,proposed-updates,now 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1 amd64 [installed,automatic]

    I'm not sure how to interpret two identical lines. Do they appear right
    next to each other in the output of apt list --installed?

    I do not see any identical lines. (Reflowed above to undo the effects
    of original post word wrapping.) There's firefox-esr-l10n-en-{ca,gb}
    and the main firefox-esr package.

    I think that the erroneous perception of the two identical lines, refers
    to the en-ca and the en-gb language packs, mistaking them as being
    duplicates, from viewing the text.

    ..
    Bret Busby
    Armadale
    West Australia
    (UTC+0800)
    ..............

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  • From Michael =?utf-8?B?S2rDtnJsaW5n?=@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 4 11:40:01 2024
    On 4 Oct 2024 00:04 -0400, from eben@gmx.us:
    eben@cerberus:~$ apt list --installed | grep firef

    WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

    firefox-esr/stable-security,proposed-updates,now 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1 amd64 [installed]

    This is what I got doing the apt:

    firefox-esr-l10n-en-ca/stable-security,proposed-updates,now 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1 all [installed]
    firefox-esr-l10n-en-gb/stable-security,proposed-updates,now 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1 all [installed]
    firefox-esr/stable-security,proposed-updates,now 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1 amd64 [installed,automatic]

    I'm not sure how to interpret two identical lines. Do they appear right
    next to each other in the output of apt list --installed?

    I do not see any identical lines. (Reflowed above to undo the effects
    of original post word wrapping.) There's firefox-esr-l10n-en-{ca,gb}
    and the main firefox-esr package.

    --
    Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

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  • From Hans@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 4 14:50:01 2024
    Am Freitag, 4. Oktober 2024, 14:24:47 CEST schrieb Mindaugas:
    Hello.

    https://www.bobevans.com/
    Looks like this site is blocked. Tested with Firefox-esr, Opera, Chromium and Konqueror - all same results (Access denied).

    I am using OpenDNS as DNS.

    Best

    Hans

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  • From Joe@21:1/5 to Hans on Fri Oct 4 15:10:01 2024
    On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 14:39:42 +0200
    Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote:

    Am Freitag, 4. Oktober 2024, 14:24:47 CEST schrieb Mindaugas:
    Hello.

    https://www.bobevans.com/
    Looks like this site is blocked. Tested with Firefox-esr, Opera,
    Chromium and Konqueror - all same results (Access denied).

    I am using OpenDNS as DNS.


    The same refusal, current Opera and FF 115.15.0esr 64bit. My DNS server
    uses root hints, so not DNS. It's using a security company for
    filtering, I'd guess to US customers only. But IP addresses now have
    only a tenuous link to location...

    --
    Joe

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  • From eben@gmx.us@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 4 15:50:02 2024
    On 10/4/24 05:36, Michael Kjörling wrote:
    On 4 Oct 2024 00:04 -0400, from eben@gmx.us:
    eben@cerberus:~$ apt list --installed | grep firef

    WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

    firefox-esr/stable-security,proposed-updates,now 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1 amd64 [installed]

    This is what I got doing the apt:

    firefox-esr-l10n-en-ca/stable-security,proposed-updates,now 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1 all [installed]
    firefox-esr-l10n-en-gb/stable-security,proposed-updates,now 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1 all [installed]
    firefox-esr/stable-security,proposed-updates,now 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1 amd64 [installed,automatic]

    I'm not sure how to interpret two identical lines. Do they appear right
    next to each other in the output of apt list --installed?

    I do not see any identical lines. (Reflowed above to undo the effects
    of original post word wrapping.) There's firefox-esr-l10n-en-{ca,gb}
    and the main firefox-esr package.

    Oops, yep, you're right. My brain skipped that bit and focused on the versions.

    --
    The difference between theory and practice is that
    in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice,
    but in practice there is.
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  • From Roger Price@21:1/5 to Joe on Fri Oct 4 15:50:02 2024
    On Fri, 4 Oct 2024, Joe wrote:

    https://www.bobevans.com/
    The same refusal, current Opera and FF 115.15.0esr 64bit. My DNS server
    uses root hints, so not DNS. It's using a security company for
    filtering, I'd guess to US customers only. But IP addresses now have
    only a tenuous link to location...

    Blocked for me using lynx via Starlink:

    IFRAME: /_Incapsula_Resource?CWUDNSAI=23&xinfo=...
    Request unsuccessful. Incapsula incident ID:
    250000230469876233-227554157701760496

    Bob Evans use Incapsula to prevent scraping. Probably a waste of money. Scrapers
    will scrape and real customers are driven away.

    Roger

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  • From Greg Wooledge@21:1/5 to Roger Price on Fri Oct 4 16:10:01 2024
    On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 15:24:11 +0200, Roger Price wrote:
    On Fri, 4 Oct 2024, Joe wrote:

    https://www.bobevans.com/
    The same refusal, current Opera and FF 115.15.0esr 64bit. My DNS server uses root hints, so not DNS. It's using a security company for
    filtering, I'd guess to US customers only. But IP addresses now have
    only a tenuous link to location...

    Blocked for me using lynx via Starlink:

    IFRAME: /_Incapsula_Resource?CWUDNSAI=23&xinfo=...
    Request unsuccessful. Incapsula incident ID:
    250000230469876233-227554157701760496

    Bob Evans use Incapsula to prevent scraping. Probably a waste of money. Scrapers will scrape and real customers are driven away.

    As a counter data point, that web site loads for me in Google Chrome.
    In Firefox with NoScript installed, I get "We're sorry but BobEvans.com
    doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it
    to continue."

    I'm in the United States, so if there's blocking it might be geo-IP
    based.

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  • From Charles Curley@21:1/5 to Joe on Fri Oct 4 16:20:01 2024
    On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 14:07:15 +0100
    Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:

    The same refusal, current Opera and FF 115.15.0esr 64bit. My DNS
    server uses root hints, so not DNS. It's using a security company for filtering, I'd guess to US customers only. But IP addresses now have
    only a tenuous link to location...

    Hmmm. Works for me. In the US, using a US IP address, and using both
    Vivaldi 6.9.3447.51-1 and firefox-esr 115.15.0esr-1~deb12u1. It appears
    to be a restaurant chain.

    Maybe our Original Poster (OP) has been magically moved outside the US
    for IP purposes?

    --
    Does anybody read signatures any more?

    https://charlescurley.com
    https://charlescurley.com/blog/

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  • From eben@gmx.us@21:1/5 to Hans on Fri Oct 4 16:20:02 2024
    On 10/4/24 08:39, Hans wrote:
    Am Freitag, 4. Oktober 2024, 14:24:47 CEST schrieb Mindaugas:
    Hello.

    https://www.bobevans.com/
    Looks like this site is blocked. Tested with Firefox-esr, Opera, Chromium and Konqueror - all same results (Access denied).

    I am using OpenDNS as DNS.

    Not blocked for everyone. It loads fine here in both Firefox 115.15.0esr and Chromium 129.0.6668.70. Requires JS though.

    --
    The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
    -- Dick the Butcher, Henry VI, Part 2, act IV, scene 2, line 75

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  • From Roger Price@21:1/5 to Greg Wooledge on Fri Oct 4 16:20:01 2024
    On Fri, 4 Oct 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote:

    On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 15:24:11 +0200, Roger Price wrote:
    On Fri, 4 Oct 2024, Joe wrote:

    https://www.bobevans.com/
    Bob Evans use Incapsula to prevent scraping. Probably a waste of money.
    Scrapers will scrape and real customers are driven away.

    As a counter data point, that web site loads for me in Google Chrome.
    In Firefox with NoScript installed, I get "We're sorry but BobEvans.com doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it
    to continue."

    I'm in the United States, so if there's blocking it might be geo-IP
    based.

    An Incapsula competitor, ScrapFly, explains why they think the blocking is primarily Javascript based: https://scrapfly.io/blog/how-to-avoid-web-scraping-blocking-javascript/

    Roger

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  • From Joe@21:1/5 to Roger Price on Fri Oct 4 17:10:01 2024
    On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 16:16:42 +0200 (CEST)
    Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> wrote:

    On Fri, 4 Oct 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote:

    On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 15:24:11 +0200, Roger Price wrote:
    On Fri, 4 Oct 2024, Joe wrote:

    https://www.bobevans.com/
    Bob Evans use Incapsula to prevent scraping. Probably a waste of
    money. Scrapers will scrape and real customers are driven away.

    As a counter data point, that web site loads for me in Google
    Chrome. In Firefox with NoScript installed, I get "We're sorry but BobEvans.com doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled.
    Please enable it to continue."

    I'm in the United States, so if there's blocking it might be geo-IP
    based.

    An Incapsula competitor, ScrapFly, explains why they think the
    blocking is primarily Javascript based: https://scrapfly.io/blog/how-to-avoid-web-scraping-blocking-javascript/

    "..javascript is by far the most powerful tool because it allows
    arbitrary code execution on the client machine."

    The work of the Devil.

    I had the site not work in FF with No-Script nor in Opera with no
    restrictions. But we are not getting to the web page at all, so
    JavaScript is not involved. It's a filtering proxy, and We Are Not
    Welcome. Not, as far as I can see, that anyone outside the US has any
    use for the site.

    --
    Joe

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  • From Roger Price@21:1/5 to Joe on Fri Oct 4 18:00:01 2024
    This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text,
    while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.

    On Fri, 4 Oct 2024, Joe wrote:

    An Incapsula competitor, ScrapFly, explains why they think the
    blocking is primarily Javascript based:
    https://scrapfly.io/blog/how-to-avoid-web-scraping-blocking-javascript/

    "..javascript is by far the most powerful tool because it allows
    arbitrary code execution on the client machine."

    The work of the Devil.

    I had the site not work in FF with No-Script nor in Opera with no restrictions. But we are not getting to the web page at all, so
    JavaScript is not involved. It's a filtering proxy, and We Are Not
    Welcome. Not, as far as I can see, that anyone outside the US has any
    use for the site.

    The ScrapFly author Granitosaurus also wrote: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47581662/how-incapsula-works-and-how-to-beat-it
    Incapsula, like many other anti-scraping services, uses 3 types of details to identify web scrapers:

    1. IP address meta information
    2. Javascript Fingerprinting
    3. Request analysis

    So it's either your IP or something in your Request. For me it's very
    probably my Starlink IP. Roger

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  • From Andrew M.A. Cater@21:1/5 to eben@gmx.us on Fri Oct 4 19:10:01 2024
    On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 10:16:06AM -0400, eben@gmx.us wrote:
    On 10/4/24 08:39, Hans wrote:
    Am Freitag, 4. Oktober 2024, 14:24:47 CEST schrieb Mindaugas:
    Hello.

    https://www.bobevans.com/
    Looks like this site is blocked. Tested with Firefox-esr, Opera, Chromium and
    Konqueror - all same results (Access denied).

    I am using OpenDNS as DNS.

    Not blocked for everyone. It loads fine here in both Firefox 115.15.0esr and Chromium 129.0.6668.70. Requires JS though.

    --
    The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
    -- Dick the Butcher, Henry VI, Part 2, act IV, scene 2, line 75


    Blocked for me - and the page shows Powered by imperva


    Access denied
    Error 15
    bobevans.com
    2024-10-04 16:57:58 UTC
    What happened?
    This request was blocked by our security service
    Your IP: 77.XXX.XXX.XXX
    Proxy IP: 45.223.153.153 (ID 10868-100)
    Incident ID: 868000100072360674-108126622072439429

    [My IP blocked out for the purposes of the copy by XXX]

    Hope this helps,

    Andy Cater
    (amacater@debian.org)

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  • From Joe@21:1/5 to Andrew M.A. Cater on Fri Oct 4 20:00:01 2024
    On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 17:01:26 +0000
    "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> wrote:

    On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 10:16:06AM -0400, eben@gmx.us wrote:
    On 10/4/24 08:39, Hans wrote:
    Am Freitag, 4. Oktober 2024, 14:24:47 CEST schrieb Mindaugas:
    Hello.

    https://www.bobevans.com/
    Looks like this site is blocked. Tested with Firefox-esr, Opera,
    Chromium and Konqueror - all same results (Access denied).

    I am using OpenDNS as DNS.

    Not blocked for everyone. It loads fine here in both Firefox
    115.15.0esr and Chromium 129.0.6668.70. Requires JS though.

    --
    The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
    -- Dick the Butcher, Henry VI, Part 2, act IV, scene
    2, line 75

    Blocked for me - and the page shows Powered by imperva


    Access denied
    Error 15
    bobevans.com
    2024-10-04 16:57:58 UTC
    What happened?
    This request was blocked by our security service
    Your IP: 77.XXX.XXX.XXX
    Proxy IP: 45.223.153.153 (ID 10868-100)
    Incident ID: 868000100072360674-108126622072439429

    [My IP blocked out for the purposes of the copy by XXX]

    It's in every message you post. Mine contain not only my public IP
    address, but the internal address of my workstation and its name, which
    I can't be bothered to mask.

    Hope this helps,

    Only if you say whether you are posting from the US or not, and it
    appears not. It seems pretty clear it's filtering on IP address, and
    presumably allowing only US ones. It's not a Firefox issue.

    --
    Joe

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