I know I can spoof my useragent, it’s just ridiculous that such a massive app doesn’t support an equally massive browser.
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based sway user
How can you tell? Looks like either i3 or sway, and that’s coming from another sway user lol
You could also get xmonad or dwm or something to look like this as well.
i3 you mean…
Well keep logging in via firefox. Send them a message
You should submit something to the webcompat website. It would help and they’ll contact Snapchat and see what they can do.
I doubt that a company with billions in revenue and thousands of coders is going to change mind after that. They exactly know how many people are getting the error and intentionally decided to implement it
If Snapchat does nothing, the Firefox team will change the user agent to trick the website into thinking it’s something else.
I don’t think they ever did that, otherwise add-ons like “Google search fixer” that change the user agent wouldn’t exist. (My fix in that case is don’t use Google at all - installing an add-on otherwise amp links aren’t shown and the useless ai search isn’t available doesn’t make sense, that’s a plus)
I thought the Google search fixer was only for mobile.
I have no idea, I find no use for that as I’m not using Google
Fair enough
At the same time, the variables in that calculation might change over time. If it becomes easy enough for them to support it, or the costs of not supporting it get too high, they might change their minds.
Alternatively: wean yourself and your friends off of snapchat. In my part of the world, snapchat isn’t popular anymore. It doesn’t offer anything new and so barely anyone uses it.
I didn’t even know that there was a Snapchat for web
I’m just surprised people still use it.
I’ve never used Snapchat on mobile, so I didn’t bother checking if it works on web. It’s neat, but I still don’t care.
Who uses Snapchat other than little kids, and adult men who want to send dick pics to said kids?
People who hunt said predators.
But how do we get rid of all the snakes that eat the birds that eat the spiders that eat the mosquitoes?
Mongoose.
It’s common at my job, blue collar where I can see little snippets of what the bros are up to and have an idea what’s going on where with the location tag they all add.
Big group at work blew up though, cause someone started showing management, so it’s more one-on-one now.
I think those little kids are adults now. However, I think Snapchat is largely abandoned but most.
All the Gen-Zers made me get it because they were loathe to communicate on the elderly platform of Twitter (even though they were all on Periscope). But of course, now they’ve largely moved on to god knows where and I still throw down the occasional sunset pic for the ones that show up a couple times a week.
… Snapchat for web??? Wtf
I can reach the login page on FF Mobile with user agent switcher + desktop mode
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I just want to say, this is less bad than websites requiring that you use internet explorer.
Those were dark days.
It’s just slightly less bad cause it requires a chromium based browser
Oh yeah, I’m not saying it’s good, just less bad.
Now instead of being crammed into a single option, you get the “choice” of several (probably equally bad) options.
Honestly, everything should just conform to standards, and it’s up to the browser to support those standards. If your browser doesn’t support it, well, good luck.
Not this bullshit of “your browser isn’t compatible with this website”. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
That’s okay, I use Firefox and don’t support Snapchat.
But it’s the fourth most popular browser according to your chart. Considering there’s probably 2 billion browser users, that’s something in the ballpark of 40 million users. 20 if you say 1 billion.
On desktop (which is what the website in question is mostly loaded in) is 6,6%. Still isnt huge but definitely more significant.
Wow Firefox just barely beats out Samsung internet and opera???
I knew chrome had the majority but I didn’t know even edge was above Firefox in market share.
There’s like 30 people at the company I work for. 8 of them use Firefox only, about 10 of them use Firefox half of the time when chrome breaks or hogs every resource possible.
REMINDER: These market share figures are self reported based on browser user agents. For over a decade now, Firefox requires you to opt into this reporting. Its true that Firefox has been slipping in market share, and that things can be rather gloomy, but they’re not as doomed as its widely reported. The big driver of declining market share for Firefox these days is CTOs telling their engineering directors to not check Firefox compatibility because they perceive it as wasted time for 6.6% of people. The easiest way to combat Google Chrome’s hegemony is to show friends and family that actually most of the internet works on Firefox despite what you’ve been told, and that also Firefox isn’t somehow outdated
It actually works just fine if you change your user agent. BTW Snapchat likes to break support for Firefox or re-enable support all the time. Don’t know what their issue is but whatever.
Doesn’t for me for some reason… I change to chrome on windows and just get an “Oops something went wrong…” I think it might be because I forgot my password and tried like 10 of them so it locked me out, however.
Firefox doesn’t support snapchat? Finally a good feature.
doesn’t it utilize some fancy camera APIs or whatever? last time I tried it on firefox with a spoofed user agent there were errors in the console
yeah it just won’t let me in on firefox at all, i had to use chr*mium 🤮 in a vm to get in
holy shit stop using snapchat
That’s the real story here. That someone’s still using Snapchat in 2024
Fuck every form of this. Website: you deliver the document, and I decide if it works.
You are supposed to do feature detection, not user agent detection since it is easily spoofed, isn’t realiable, & doesn’t account for literally all the alternative UAs that can support it. This is bad/lazy practice.
Fx doesn’t always have all the features you need, but often it usually does & where I have seen this as being deployed is management saying it isn’t worth the effort to support. Just having one person on the team running Fx is usually enough to catch the game-breaking bugs.
FYI navigator.platform and friends will still return Linux, even in Tor Browser… so it’s still trivially easy to detect your OS, Browser etc. and block that even without the user agent.
That’s still not feature detection & is in the exact same sniffing category
what’s even the advantage in this?
Something marketing and having your service not appear dysfunctional or buggy to the stupid, stupid enduser
Also avoids firefox privacy
