Soooo... PayPal is banning Asahi Linux users. Hey, can you maybe not do that please?
https://gist.github.com/asahilina/31dd6bf3cde26a51e0fc1414e1abe730
Yes, they ban Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1". Anything else works.
Edit: To be clear they're banning the platform from access, not individual accounts. This won't get your account banned.
Edit 2: Alternate workaround: Spoof a Mac OS / Safari user agent. As you'd expect, "Apple M1" is allowed then.
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RE: https://vt.social/@lina/115568401302718163
@GiorgioComitini Update... it's a GPU renderer string block. Here's a userscript that fixes it.
RE: https://vt.social/@lina/115568401302718163
@valpackettVal Packett 🧉 This isn't behavior fingerprinting though... they are sniffing the renderer string. Browsers already spoof that to "generic" GPUs (all Apple GPUs are "Apple M1, or similar"), but I guess now they'll have to drop the vendor info entirely...
RE: https://vt.social/@lina/115568401302718163
@GiorgioComitini Apparently it's intentional. They ban users with anything reporting as "Apple M1"...
