I really don't believe twitch is blocking Firefox. Check your add-ons, clear cookies, etc.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2024
120 points (66.4% liked)
Firefox
17875 readers
7 users here now
A place to discuss the news and latest developments on the open-source browser Firefox
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
You're right. I only get this when Twitch can see I'm using a VPN.
This might be understandable if they have various sets of blocked/disallowed content depending on local laws, but OTOH I wish they'd more clearly communicate why you're being blocked then.
I've also had trouble logging into Twitch a few times over the last year on Firefox, but the same is true for Paypal. Both of them don't work in a private window without any addons either, and at least for Paypal changing the user agent didn't help. Twitch works fine If I'm already logged into Twitch, same with Paypal. Just the login fails for some reason.
There's other payment options, and I seldomly watch streams anyway.
Firefox is actually one of the recommended browsers, if you were to click on that link. Twitch just has some issues sometimes
Yup, I use Twitch all the time on Firefox (including yesterday), and with an ad-blocker as well.
I just logged in, no issues, probably check your extensions. Mine are minimal, includes uBlock, regular Firefox updated to latest.
Same, just logged in fine. Firefox on Linux from Arch repos.
Differing experiences might mean that Twitch is performing A/B testing on blocking Firefox.
Usually it means that OP either uses a "hardened" fork, or did some messing around with about:config like resistFingerprinting, without understanding the ramnifications of such hardening on various web technologies that aren't primarily related to tracking/tracing.
I had this come up when I was using a locked down version of FF.
Basically what happened was the security settings were not allowing Twitch the access it required.
Once I went through and allowed access it worked fine.
Anecdotally, it's still working for me. Using uBlock Origin, logged in with a Twitch account.
What does the "recommend browser" link point to? Is it this page, which lists Firefox as a supported browser? https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/supported-browsers?language=en_US
You need to disable resist fingerprinting. It's annoying, but you can reenable it after you've logged in
That's the solution if you immediately tried to login and it didn't work.
Twitch login has in general very misleading error messages. The exact same message with unsupported browser also appears if you take too long to login
No, you need to email twitch that they have a bug.
And boycott them if they're intentionally trying to harm marginalized folks.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Change user agent. Log in, opting to stay logged in for 30 days. Change user agent back.
That's my routine with LibreWolf.
I also believe they don't like a particular security setting present on FF based browsers, though I don't recall off the top of my head which one.
I also believe they don't like a particular security setting present on FF based browsers, though I don't recall off the top of my head which one.
Looks like it's tracking of course
Stop using recommended when you mean required FFS.
This is a cookies/tracking issue, not a Firefox issue.
If you set it to allow tracking, it will let you login, and you can disable tracking again after and it will remember you.
Now that is a long password lol
Idk someone could probably brute force it in only a few trillion years, I'd make it longer if you plan to be using Twitch long-term.
You assume the person would never change the password. Someone with that long password is probably security concerned and is likely to change it after some time, even if its once in a year.
Yeah but you'd have to write it across like, 10 post-it notes along the top of your monitor. That'd get expensive!
Or just use a password manager. Then you only need to store one password across 15 post-it notes.
load more comments
(4 replies)
Password managers.
Yup, most of my passwords are like 30 characters, and I don't remember any of them except the one to unlock my password manager (and a couple other important ones).
load more comments
(1 replies)
It was doing this to me a while back. Are you using a VPN or using an ad-blocker specifically for Twitch's embedded stream ads? (e.g. TTV-LOL-Pro) The latter work by using proxies and so I think trigger the same sort of effects. Disabled it and it worked fine. It also happened on a Chromium-based browser when I tested it out.
When I got that message I just refreshed the page and tried logging in again and it worked.
Everyone boo this service! BOOOOOOOOOOO!
As if I needed more reason to not go to Twitch. 😂
But it actually works fine for me. Firefox beta 122.0, uBlock Origin and Consent-O-Matic installed.
I had to disable an extension to log in last time I got this message. Alternatively, force refresh the page.
worked for me but I do have 2-factor
Are there many open source frontends for Twitch? I Xtra on Android
The same thing happens with webkit.
view more: next ›