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My experience is that anything that tries to tamper with the UA will send CF into a frenzy.

My regular firefox instance is pretty much okay. Unfortunately there is a bunch of super popular crapware shit like Teams and Slack that refuses to properly work on Firefox, unless you tweak the UA. The last time I had to do this was about half a year ago, but Slack refused to let me "huddle", unless I changed my UA. Same with Teams, it straight up said I need to install chrome if I want video chat.

Any time I forgot to change back my UA, CF would not let me in anywhere. I got the captcha, clicked on it, it said "all good", reloaded the page, and I got redirected back to the captcha. Endless loop.




Just curious, what kind of changes or tweaks do you typically make to your UA and why?


I just gave two examples above.


You gave examples of when you change your UA, but didn't actually say what change you make. Are you changing it to match a Google Chrome UA, or what?


Yeah, I change it to the Chrome UA




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