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Yeah and Firefox on Linux too. I do have the user agent set to one from Edge because otherwise Microsoft blocks many features in Office 365. Once it thinks it's Edge it suddenly does work just fine. But it doesn't completely fix all the cloudflare blocks and captchas.

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+1 for Firefox on Linux. Several other services (like Instagram) now also accuse me of being a bot every time I legitimately log in with Firefox on Linux.

Yeah with Instagram I wouldn't be surprised if they just do this to annoy to into using their app. Where they can force timed ads (you have to watch an ad now for a few seconds before it continues).

I noticed another platform (wallapop, a kind of ebay/craigslist here in Spain) that does the same. It never works well in a browser, even in chrome. I think they're just trying to bully their users to their app, which has 30+ trackers in it.

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