I really don't believe twitch is blocking Firefox. Check your add-ons, clear cookies, etc.
You're right. I only get this when Twitch can see I'm using a VPN.
This might be understandable if they have various sets of blocked/disallowed content depending on local laws, but OTOH I wish they'd more clearly communicate why you're being blocked then.
I've also had trouble logging into Twitch a few times over the last year on Firefox, but the same is true for Paypal. Both of them don't work in a private window without any addons either, and at least for Paypal changing the user agent didn't help. Twitch works fine If I'm already logged into Twitch, same with Paypal. Just the login fails for some reason.
There's other payment options, and I seldomly watch streams anyway.
Firefox is actually one of the recommended browsers, if you were to click on that link. Twitch just has some issues sometimes
Yup, I use Twitch all the time on Firefox (including yesterday), and with an ad-blocker as well.
Differing experiences might mean that Twitch is performing A/B testing on blocking Firefox.
Usually it means that OP either uses a "hardened" fork, or did some messing around with
about:configlikeresistFingerprinting, without understanding the ramnifications of such hardening on various web technologies that aren't primarily related to tracking/tracing.
I just logged in, no issues, probably check your extensions. Mine are minimal, includes uBlock, regular Firefox updated to latest.
Same, just logged in fine. Firefox on Linux from Arch repos.
Seems to be working OK for me on FF with Ublock and Privacy Badger running.
Same here
I had this come up when I was using a locked down version of FF.
Basically what happened was the security settings were not allowing Twitch the access it required.
Once I went through and allowed access it worked fine.
You need to disable resist fingerprinting. It's annoying, but you can reenable it after you've logged in
That's the solution if you immediately tried to login and it didn't work.
Twitch login has in general very misleading error messages. The exact same message with unsupported browser also appears if you take too long to login
Stop using recommended when you mean required FFS.
Anecdotally, it's still working for me. Using uBlock Origin, logged in with a Twitch account.
What does the "recommend browser" link point to? Is it this page, which lists Firefox as a supported browser? https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/supported-browsers?language=en_US
Change user agent. Log in, opting to stay logged in for 30 days. Change user agent back.
That's my routine with LibreWolf.
I also believe they don't like a particular security setting present on FF based browsers, though I don't recall off the top of my head which one.
Aite maybe this is a dumb question, but what is “changing the user agent”?
When your browser connects to a website, it will tell the webserver what type of browser you are using in the HTTP headers. This can be used for serving a special web page for browsers with quirks, or it can be used to block certain browsers.
It may look something like this:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0But you can use an extension like this one to spoof your user agent and send out one that corresponds to a chromium browser.
I also believe they don't like a particular security setting present on FF based browsers, though I don't recall off the top of my head which one.
Looks like it's tracking of course
This is a cookies/tracking issue, not a Firefox issue.
If you set it to allow tracking, it will let you login, and you can disable tracking again after and it will remember you.
Now that is a long password lol
Idk someone could probably brute force it in only a few trillion years, I'd make it longer if you plan to be using Twitch long-term.
Password managers.
Yup, most of my passwords are like 30 characters, and I don't remember any of them except the one to unlock my password manager (and a couple other important ones).
If your password don't overflow the input field, its not long enough
Everyone boo this service! BOOOOOOOOOOO!
Please don't post pictures of text without transcribing the words
the title describes the screenshot entirely
@TonyTonyChopper @library_napper It does not.
It was doing this to me a while back. Are you using a VPN or using an ad-blocker specifically for Twitch's embedded stream ads? (e.g. TTV-LOL-Pro) The latter work by using proxies and so I think trigger the same sort of effects. Disabled it and it worked fine. It also happened on a Chromium-based browser when I tested it out.
As if I needed more reason to not go to Twitch. 😂
But it actually works fine for me. Firefox beta 122.0, uBlock Origin and Consent-O-Matic installed.
When I got that message I just refreshed the page and tried logging in again and it worked.
Does it still let you sign in? I am currently signed in and it works
No, I tried to log in so i can change my password
Just a comment: IMO it's not worth using strong passwords on which you depend on privative/unknown security platforms. Who knows how many times they get hacked or have backdoors? Unless they specify they only store the hash I refuse to sacrifice one of my strong passwords.
Edit: To all talking about password managers. I don't believe in single point of failure as a way to go. The fact that i've to explain that xd...
You should use randomly generated passwords from a password manager, there is no short supply of strong random passwords.
Waste one of my 2272657884496751345355241563627544170162852933518655225856 possible 32 character passwords on Twitch! Outrageous! What if I run out?
Bro over here still using one of his "strong passwords" trying to give other people security advice 😅
Sacrifice? Tf you on about?
Genuinely terrible advice. Every popularly available password manager service hashes all your passwords, if they have a data breach they have extremely strict reporting compliance and the majority of services will re-hash all your passwords. If youre so extremely concerned about that, host your own.
But what concerns me the most is
Unless they specify they only store the hash I refuse to sacrifice one of my strong passwords.
... What to you mean sacrifice?
That is definitely an autofilled one-off password from a password manager.
You can see the keypassxc plugin button right there. What is the thread op on about lol.
How about just using a password manager and create a unique strong password for every website? That way you don't have to store so much in your brain and you get better security on any website. You also don't have to worry about more than one website being breached from reused passwords.
BitWarden is pretty great and is open source and free to use.
You can also self-host it if you don't trust them storing your hashed passwords.
I had to disable an extension to log in last time I got this message. Alternatively, force refresh the page.
The same thing happens with webkit.
worked for me but I do have 2-factor
Are there many open source frontends for Twitch? I Xtra on Android
