[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 243135] WebKitGTK based browser detected as bot by botguard

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243135

--- Comment #2 from Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at gnome.org> ---
Quick summary of discussion on Matrix: we think user agent quirks will not work here. We are not sure specifically what they use to decide to discriminate against us. My pet theory is TLS handshake fingerprinting is most likely, but Bartek proposed a bunch of other possible ways, so who knows.

(In reply to Bartek Sabat from comment #0)
> I'll be creating a ticket on SoundCloud's end, but I doubt it will get
> resolved, because it'd require them to "reduce" their "security" in order to
> support a very small subset of browsers.

You're likely right, but we can hope for better. Make sure they understand that WebKitGTK is part of upstream WebKit, and maybe point them to this bug report so they understand we are discussing.

Currently we do not have a policy for how WebKit should deal with such issues. I will soon propose an antidiscrimination policy to help WebKit address such issues in a more aggressive manner.

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