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by 0l 4 hours ago
FYI your server returns Brotli encoded content, even if the request has only Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, zstd - making it unreadable in for me (Firefox on Fedora).
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I actually did that on purpose since all browsers support brotli I risked the possibility someone might have disabled it with an add-on. I wanted to see how many bots that would break. It may not be the most logical process but I just use CanIUse [1] to see what supports Brotli. I ignore the Opera Mini block as they seem to support almost nothing.

[1] - https://caniuse.com/brotli

Ah, fair enough. Well Firefox should support Brotli by default, so it's probably something going on on my machine.
Nothing wrong with that. I think people should be able to disable anything they want. I doubt any commercial sites will do what I am doing. I use that little blog to test all manor of unorthodox things. That's why I listed the archive mirror, just in case.