Midori makes internet think you run Safari and Mac
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Hello I just installed trisquel mini. I never ran midori and I really like it. It is really fast on my net book.
But today I visited http://www.humblebundle.com/ and it seemed to think that I was running a Mac. I then visited http://www.thismachine.info/
and that says the following:
Safari on Mac OSx
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; es-es) AppleWebKit/534+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/534.26+ Midori/0.4
So I did some googling and I found that it has to do with some websites discriminating browsers that are less used:
The above link shows how to change it I think. But I have not done it yet.
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Yes just did it. it is under Edit> preveences> net (red in spanish) tab. choose identify as midori.
thismachine.info now thinks I run firefox on linux: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux) AppleWebKit/534.26+ Midori/0.4
I filed a bug
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Humm it might not be a bug. it is a requirement for midori not to be discriminated from the web.
It is a bug in Internet. There are sites which only allow you to see the content if you use a browser they approve. Usually that is because they don't bother to do standards compliant sites.
To get around that bug by making a browser to cheat its true identity is kinda ugly hack because it affects the statistics, which affect what the devs approve as a browser to use to see their sites.
So to make a bug of Midori because it cheats its true identity is good. One should make Midori cheat its identity to the sites which refuse you to see the content with unapproved browsers.
Thanks anyway of your note. I can pay attention to it myself. In Toutatis the setting for ID is "automatic". I haven't yet checked how it works, but probably it works good because some sites try to say to me that they do not work with my browser and that I should get a better browser lol.
This addon might prove useful with Midori, it allows one to set the user agent per domain, so you can only masquerade for the stupid web sites. (MPL/GPL/LGPL trilicensed)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uacontrol/
EDIT: lol, it's a firefox addon... what was I thinking? :D