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Incredible. I just changed my user-agent whilst on the Google Chrome browser.

  * Changing to Firefox immediately displayed the Cloudflare error message
  * Edge had no errors
  * Chrome had no errors
  * Safari had no errors

Edit: Even internet explorer 9, android kitkat, and the opera browser had no errors.

Edit 2: as another user has pointed out, this is most likely a firewall rule put in place by the website operator themselves.

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Do you see the error when testing with Firefox, though?

Receiving a "you look like a bot" message when using Chrome configured to pretend to be Firefox isn't very surprising.

I can confirm this on pure (native) FF as well. As someone who has run multiple large web properties this hurts to see. I've observed firsthand the impact of what adding friction to certain browser segments does to utilization, if large corps decide that FF is a "risk" it will do a number on their already struggling traction, and we already live in far too much of a browser monoculture.

(Disclaimer, MSFtie, all opinions are my own)

I can also confirm this on Firefox. With JS enabled I get the challenge from Cloudflare, and with JS disabled for g2.com, I get:

> Please turn JavaScript on and reload the page.

> DDoS protection by Cloudflare

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