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stewbowl

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Registered: 2023-10-18

Posts: 2

unable to log into Twitch

Hello there. I recently switched to Arch Linux and have had a couple of issues with moving in, though most have been fixed already. One I am unable tol figure how to fix though is an issue where I cannot log into Twitch. Using Firefox, Chromium, and Opera result in an error stating that my browser is not supported despite using browsers that should be supported. If this is like some of the other issues I've been having, then it's most likely that I just need to install a package that isn't included at installation, but I don't know what it could be. Does anyone have any suggestions for what I could do?

astralc

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Registered: 2022-09-17

Posts: 126

Re: unable to log into Twitch

I encountered it once when I had extension that twitch doesn't like (browser automation), maybe you have something like that on all of them? try new profile with all extensions disabled.
I don't know if twitch also check the user agent, if you changed it.

Irets

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Registered: 2019-02-01

Posts: 143

Re: unable to log into Twitch

I remember having that issue with one of my browser addons.
Had to temporarily disable everything, login and then re-enable everything.

stewbowl

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Registered: 2023-10-18

Posts: 2

Re: unable to log into Twitch

I don't know what the issue was, but I'm able to login now. Weirdly enough, I was able to login after changing my time zone to the correct one (I hadn't set it correctly during installation). However, after changing to multiple different timezones, I can confidently say that it wasn't the issue. Something interesting about this is that I used multiple other services that required login before the issue mysteriously fixed, and none of them had this issue. I did install some applications in the time that this was going on, so my only guess is that some thing that I installed something that ended up fixing the issue.

ernesthyphen

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Registered: 2024-03-24

Posts: 1

Re: unable to log into Twitch

A bit old I know but in case anyone is looking for the answer to this like I was, set your timezone specifically. By that I mean I changed mine from UTC to the specific timezone and problems went away.

Figured it was some OS level setting as all browsers installed failed but logging into the same browsers in different OS's worked. After stewbowls comment I messed around with TZ's and the issue went away.