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Re: PayPal deliberately blocking Asahi Linux users, and workarounds



Dear all,

On 11/18/25 13:09, NoisyCoil wrote:
Since last week PayPal is deliberately blocking Asahi Linux users through its captcha service. This is most probably fingerprinting gone bad: whoever is developing the captcha service apparently doesn't know Linux on Apple Silicon is a thing, and blacklisted the combination (any non-macOS User-Agent) + (Apple Silicon GPU). Some browsers, including Firefox, leak the GPU through WebGL.

A fix (actually, a workaround) for this was included in mesa 25.3, which migrated to testing a few days ago. After some testing, I will backport the fix to mesa-asahi in trixie-bananas, so it's also available to trixie users.

Cheers!


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