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muzuiget / user_agent_overrider

Firefox extension to override browser user agent string
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/user-agent-overrider/
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Ixquick and Startpage search #6

Closed anonymousdon closed 10 years ago

anonymousdon commented 10 years ago

When searching from the search pages search bar (NOT the Firefox search bar) Ixquick (and startpage) says this:

If you're reading this and you are human, we apologize. Ixquick has automated mechanisms in place to prevent abuse by bots, spammers, and so forth, and occasionally we misidentify legitimate users. We're working hard to improve our countermeasures so that visitors such as yourself won't face an interruption like this again.

Please try the following steps:

If you have questions or feedback, or the above steps didn't resolve the issue, please contact us directly at support @ ixquick.com and we'll do our best to help.

Thanks for choosing to be an Ixquick user.

muzuiget commented 10 years ago

If using a browser extension that masks your default user-agent, adjust your user-agent string to any value other than an empty string

It says clearly, you should know what is User-Agent and how it work.

Deactivate the UAO extension can revert back the Firefox default User-Agent.