Posts made by croupf

I meant that the "user agent" field contains this list of things. I suppose, this means that these browsers are similar.

@leocg , it shows a list of things with both chrome and opera in it and something else...

@naurzoom said in Vkontakte Download:

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@yeswap , right, I don't have a file manager. I dont really know that well this environment: it seems to only have a primitive viewer for Downloads. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try this file manager you mentioned.

@leocg , I've just tested w/ a proxy checker, both a direct connection and a proxied one: the server knows my "user agent" in both cases. At least by default, meaning unless the proxy allows you to pretend to be a different browser and you configured it to do so. Passing through the kind of browser by default makes sense cause it may be important for rendering.

That aside, what you say is interesting. It may indeed be the server, thanks for pointing to this. I'll work on this possibility.

Btw, both opera and chrome are based on chromium. Wonder why/how the server discerns and discriminates (if it is the server). Cause it should look the same to it.

Aren't you afraid to use this service? It's a Russian outfit. To say nothing about actually installing their executables on your box.

@leocg said in Is Opera interfering with browsing targets?:

@croupf If you can access the page with a proxy, then you are being blocked by them.

How so? The server does know my browser, I think — even with a proxy in between. If it filters me out direct, it'd do so with a proxy as well... That said, I'll look into it: this scenario did not occur to me before.

Could you try testing with data savings enabled?

Will try.

Ah , thanks. Will do.

Every time I log in (here or synching), Opera sends me an email with an alarm --- "someone logged in to your account!!!!" I know someone logged in, it was me! Lol. It is always the same device, IP address, and location. There's nothing even remotely suspicious about these logins: why does Opera insist on spamming me with this unneeded, useless crap? I could understand if in the space of an hour there were two logins from different coasts, but such is not the case. Can this spamming be stopped?

Thanks.

@leocg , I don't use any VPNs and don't need to, and I'm on WiFi, no need for "data savings". Like I said, I can connect to this site if I go through a proxy (should be similar to VPN, no?). It looks like the browser "doesn't like" this site, lol. It isn't 100% so --- it had on occasion hooked to it, but it's like 1% of attempts. I keep testing with Chrome: never a problem, not once.

@yeswap , it's not a phone, it's an old tablet. It does not have an extra memory card, only what it was built with at the time of manufacture.

@leocg, I only use adblocker, so I stopped it and tried again: no change, page unaccessible.

@yeswap , yes, "downloads" is selected. But with a little droid utility called "Downloads" I cant see any Opera downloads, though everything I got with Chrome is there, and can be used directly, w/o involving Chrome. Opera's downloads I can only see on Opera's Downloads page and nowhere else. If I want to open a .PDF file (that got downloaded with Opera) I have to do it from Opera.

@leocg , it doesn't say "mini" anywhere. Just Opera.

Not for me. Almost never; 99 times out of 100 it's "the site unaccessible".

Here, I've just tried and got an empty white page with the message: "This site can’t be reached
The webpage at https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2020/06/10/how-the-covid-19-pandemic-exposes-americas-need-for-resilient-critical-infrastructure/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address."

@leocg , ah, damn. Sorry about it. I guess I searched for something and ended up here w/o looking. Thanks.

@leocg , I'm talking the mobile android version. There's a normal accessible directory called "downloads" where Chrome deposits files, but Opera plops them somewhere else that I can't see from outside of the browser. Its like I have two "download" directories: a visible one, and an invisible one that only Opera can read.

@leocg , are you using the mobile version? I forgot to mention this... I'm using the android version of it.

why, for example, does it put downloads into some special directory that cannot be accessed from outside of the browser? Boggles the mind.

How come pages on the Center for Security Policy site are never accessible from Opera But Are Connected To W/O Any Problem From Other Browsers , like, say, Chrome (or via a proxy)? Try https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2020/06/10/how-the-covid-19-pandemic-exposes-americas-need-for-resilient-critical-infrastructure/ for example.

This site is frequently very critical of the Chinese communist government --- is this why they don't want you to read it?

Tell me what you think. I'm about to trash this browser. Its nothing like the old Opera anyway...