From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 2025-10-13, Paul in Houston TX wrote:   
      
   > Paul B. Gallagher wrote:   
   >> Yesterday, I wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> David E. Ross wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> When I use PrefBar to spoof Firefox, the UA is:   
   >>>>     Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:109.0)   
   >>>>          Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0   
   >>>   
   >>> Thanks, that works. The key parameter appears to be the Firefox   
   >>> version; I had previously used "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0;   
   >>> Win64; x64; rv:128) Gecko/20100101 Firefox 108.0," but as soon as I   
   >>> updated to "Firefox/115.0" it started working normally.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Oops, today that doesn't work anymore. I'm back to ""Our systems   
   >> have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. ..."   
   >>   
   >> I tried spoofing Firefox 128.0, but that didn't help. My current UA   
   >> for Google is "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128)   
   >> Gecko/20100101 Firefox 128.0," but Google doesn't accept it.   
   >>   
   >> Any more ideas?   
   >   
   > This still works for me today, 13 Oct 2025:   
   > I used David Ross's suggestion and made it strictly for Google:   
   > general.useragent.override.www.google.com   
   > Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101   
   > Firefox/115.0   
   >   
   > Note that FF _MUST_ be 115.0.   
   > No zero = does not work.   
   > SOME of the rest of the string can be changed if you wanted to.   
      
   Those who are showing working overrides: does "working" mean you can   
   pass the reCAPTCHA challenge, or that you're never shown a challenge to   
   pass, and just get the search results straight away?   
      
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