Getting warning for outdated/unsecure browser on Ebay.com

[DoctorG]

@BriKyKo
Do you use any privacy extension which changes user-agent (browser) id to a older or switched version?
Which user-agent is shown in Settings → Network?

[BriKyKo]

@BriKyKo

[DoctorG]

@BriKyKo What is shown for you as browser's user-agent at https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-is-my-user-agent/

[BriKyKo]

@DoctorG I went to the link and this is what showed:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

[DoctorG]

@BriKyKo said in Notice when visiting Ebay about updated browser:

Im in the US

Perhaps you get this injected hint only for residents of USA.
I do not see it from Germany.

[DoctorG]

@BriKyKo Thais is a regular and correct user-agent.

//EDIT: Can you check Settings → Network?
Should be "Report Browser Brand" as "Google
Chrome" and not more.

[BriKyKo]

Im thinking this is just a notice that will remain till June 30th. I know Vivaldi does not show up on the "updated" browser list but do you think this will matter? I will see on June 30th as I dont plan on changing browsers. I love Vivaldi too much

[DoctorG]

@BriKyKo Vivaldi is not shown because Ebay had not listed it.
But as Vivaldi is similar to Chromium/Chrome all should be nice after 30th of June.

[BriKyKo]

@DoctorG AAAHHHH it was set to Vivaldi. I changed it to Google. NO MORE WARNINGS!!!!
THANK YOU!!!!

Sorry for the delay. The forum says I must wait 120s between postings.

[DoctorG]

@BriKyKo Pleased to help you

[DoctorG]

@BriKyKo said in Notice when visiting Ebay about updated browser:

it was set to Vivaldi

I guess you did it weeks/months ago and forgot about setting. Such can happen

[BriKyKo]

Yes I did change it. I was going through the settings and saw it set to Google and I thought: "Wait this is Vivaldi" and so changed it to Vivaldi.

[DoctorG]

@BriKyKo Ah, ok.
Vivaldi devs changed to disguise as "Google Chrome" to help Vivaldi browser displaying all websites, also the dumb ones with bad Chrome-only filter/detection.

And i guess nowadays nobody detects in web server logs which products visited a page. Telling the servers: i am Vivaldi has no postitive effects.

[garynappi]

Today this popped upon Ebay (Ebay direct page)

"Oh No! Update your browser today! Starting June 30, your favorite sites won’t support outdated, unsecure browsers for online shopping. Update Now. Learn more.Learn more."

I just checked my Vivaldt about file and it agrees with the most recent.

6.1.3035.75

Unless going above the x.x.xxxx.75 is a substantial upgrade?

[Pathduck]

@garynappi Hi - this has been a topic several times over the last weeks. Apparently Ebay has some crappy browser-detection script that detects Vivaldi as an "outdated" browser. Most likely they do not even know Vivaldi exists

Might be some solutions in there:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/88013/notice-when-visiting-ebay-about-updated-browser
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/87924/vivaldi-not-acceptable-after-june-30
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/87811/anyone-getting-unsupported-warning-on-ebay-com

Apparently, this warning is only served to US, possibly Canada/UK users. None of us Euro types have been able to see it even trying to reproduce it by telling we're running IE5 and similar.

Otherwise, just ignore the warning.
Or, since you're a customer, report this to the Ebay support and tell them to get their fingers out of their...

[DoctorG]

@garynappi Try if upgrade to Vivaldi 6.1.3035.111 Stable will help you.

[edwardp]

In a Private Window, ebay's home page is currently not displaying that message, using Stable 6.1.3035.111.

In the Privacy and Security settings, Popups are blocked.

My User Agent in Settings/Network is:

[Pathduck]

@edwardp So - in a regular window, the message is displaying? Always, on every page, on certain pages, when logged in or out, with adblocker on/off with the default setting in Network brand masking?

There's a lot of stuff try and get to the bottom of what's causing this. I would try, but it never ever happens for me, even when I send the user agent of Internet Explorer 6.

[edwardp]

@Pathduck

Reporting browser brand as Vivaldi:

With the ad blocker turned off completely for ebay (no blocking), the graphic described by the OP is displayed.

With the ad blocker completely on (blocking trackers and ads), the graphic does not appear, once I delete all the ebay cookies and refresh the page.

At best, it is appearing intermittently.

Reporting browser browser brand as Google Chrome:

The graphic does not appear with the ad blocker completely on.

[Pathduck]

@edwardp What about the rest of the stuff I mentioned, test that as well. Make a list of stuff that seems to affect the warning.

Then again - should we spend time on something that is clearly not Vivaldi's problem, caused by half-witted Ebay developers?

Besides, 30/6 has come and passed. And the site still works. So no worries right?

Anyone who cares enough about Ebay to use it regularly should report it as a bug to them. We can't really report a bug for Vivaldi - because it's not a Vivaldi problem.