"banned due to browser signature" only sometimes, on my Linux computer from home (no trouble at work.)

[Krommer]

(Not a "Court House Ban Appeal", since not really banned.)

 

I mainly post here in the RDO forums.

 

Lately, only when posting from home (using Chrome on this Windows work computer, no problems there), I'll get on and look at the forums and be posting some and then I'll suddenly sometimes see:

 

"Banned, Cloudflare has banned you due to your Mozilla  browser signature blah blah blah." (shows what the sig # is.)

 

I thought at first maybe the browser wasn't updated enough, so updated it for sure. The same thing still happened.

I'm in OpenSuse Linux 15.3 and using the most current Mozilla Firefox (91 or something, from Mozilla repository) AT HOME and it is happening (was happening originally in an

earlier Mozilla Firefox (73 or something.)

 

This has only happened in the last month or so. Sometimes if I try using the VPN I can post again from home, briefly, but then eventually I'll see the same thing

 

"Banned Cloudflare browser sig etc. "

 

Is this just a weird Cloudflare thing?

 

Some searches, for this problem, mention making sure that cookies are accepted (which I think I've done.)

I've even turned off Ghostery/whitelisted this site in Ghostery at home.

 

I hate to use/install Chrome just for this, when its been fine on that computer with Firefox up until the last

month or so.

 

 

From the Cloudflare troubleshooting:

 

"Error 1010: The owner of this website has banned your access based on your browser's signature

Common cause

A website owner blocked your request based on your client's web browser.

Resolution

Notify the website owner of the blocking. If you cannot determine how to contact the website owner, lookup contact information for the domain via the Whois database. Site owners disable Browser Integrity Check via the Settings tab of the Firewall app. Since the website owner performed the blocking, Cloudflare support cannot override a customer’s security settings."

Edited September 1, 2021 by Krommer