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by porridgeraisin 543 days ago
They are throwing a bit of a hissy fit over brave. Change the user agent or something and view the site.
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Reading the facts of the situation, it seems like a warranted "bit of a hissy fit".
Disagree. Regardless of what Brave is doing you shouldn’t block via User Agent like this.
Especially not simply making the site not load like that. If you really think a browser is so bad you don't want people using it, at least have it redirect to a message explaining what your grievance is. Unless the browser is DDoSing webpages it loads successfully, making the site look broken is pretty worthless as a response.

EDIT: Although, it looks like they tried to do that sometimes? No idea why they would switch from that approach.

Eh, pushcx's is right to disagree with past bad decision Brave made, but I think he's conflating a few grievances together. Someone tried to reason with him on that front: https://lobste.rs/s/iopw1d/what_s_up_with_lobste_rs_blocking...

I sense hidden ideology, but it's his community to own, not mine.

It's not just that he disagrees with the things on an object, what happened level. He actively reads malice into every misstep to paint the organization as abusive.
Yep.