Cannot log into website "This page is restricted".

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toomakesense Banned @junkitt last edited by toomakesense

@junkitt Please try clearing your opera browser cache, restart your system and try again.
Feel free to reach out if the problem persist.

Kings

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junkitt @toomakesense last edited by

@toomakesense I have already tried all that yesterday but the results were the same. I will, however, try yet again. And let you know if anything changes.

Thank you for your efforts.

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junkitt @toomakesense last edited by

@toomakesense I have cleared cache, shut down, pulled plug and waited 30 seconds, rebooted and tried again to log in. The results were the same, though. And I'm getting a little frustrated about this.

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leocg Moderator @junkitt last edited by

@junkitt What happens if you change Opera's user agent?

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junkitt @leocg last edited by

@leocg Hi, thanks for coming to my aid.

I'll tell you everything you want to know once I know what I'm looking for and where to find it.

So, first off, I have no idea what a user agent is. I don't know where to look to find it, and I have no idea where I can get a different one to try.

So, can you give me a url or two so that I can do some homework for you, please. You caught me flat-footed with your question.

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leocg Moderator @junkitt last edited by

@junkitt User Agent is what identifies a browser, it's how a site knows that the browser accessing it is Opera or Chrome or IE or whatever.

You can use an extension to change Opera's user agent.
And maybe on Opera 62 you have a flag to enable Chromium user agent.

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junkitt @leocg last edited by

@leocg I was just reading about user agents so what you just wrote makes some sense to me.

What I am missing now is where to change it, how to change it and what should I try to change it to, in order to get some meaningful results for this experiment?

Hopefully, you have some suggestions for me....

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leocg Moderator @junkitt last edited by

@junkitt If Opera 62 beta has opera://flags/#chromium-ua-compatibility, just enable it. If not, then install this extension

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junkitt @leocg last edited by

@leocg There is something very strange going on with my Opera Beta... when I went to get the extension (which first came up in Spanish) ... I'm getting prodded to download Opera, even though I'm currently, as though the Opera extension store is not recognizing the browser, AND there is no Install button. What do I do now?

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junkitt last edited by

Oh, forgot to mention that even though I enabled the #chromium-ua-compatibility, there has been no change to my user agent.

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junkitt @leocg last edited by

@leocg I just tried closing and reopening Opera but nothing has changed... I'm told to download Opera. What would cause this sort of behavior?

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junkitt @leocg last edited by

@leocg I even found myself in the middle of a beta update, but it didn't help me get Opera extension page to recognize my browser as Opera. <sigh>

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leocg Moderator @junkitt last edited by

@junkitt If the flag is enabled, you shouldn't see the OPR part of the user agent in Menu > Help > About Opera.

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leocg Moderator @junkitt last edited by

@junkitt Is the flag that I've mentioned, enabled? If so, then it's expected.

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junkitt @leocg last edited by

@leocg

This is what I am seeing:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.80 Safari/537.36

But I think that is the same thing as what I saw before. But, I had expected to see something about Chromium.

In either case, the response is that I still have all that wacky behavior going on.

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junkitt @leocg last edited by

@leocg
One clarification you could help me with:

I'm reading about a "clean install". Part of the instructions say to "delete your Opera profile data".

I just want to make sure that I understand correctly... the profile data is everything in all the subdirectories and on and on that are below the directory labeled as "Profile" on the About Opera page. That "tree" is huge and I have backed it up, but better safe than sorry.

Thank you again and again for all your help.

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leocg Moderator @junkitt last edited by

@junkitt With the flag disabled, you should see a OPR/62.0.3331.x at the end of the user agent string.

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junkitt @leocg last edited by

@leocg Thank you for explaining that. I did have it enabled, as per your instructions, but disabled it to see the difference.

None the less, I just did a clean install of Opera Beta and am typing this is an Opera window, after having logged in using the cleanly (re)installed version.

I want to thank you again and again for coming to my rescue and for all you've done for me. I truly appreciate your effort and energy!

Maybe, now I can get back to the race...

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leocg Moderator @junkitt last edited by

@junkitt So the problem was solved?

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junkitt @leocg last edited by

@leocg I want to reserve judgement on that because I'm using a vanilla browser at present, and all these ads