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When your browser connects to a website, it will tell the webserver what type of browser you are using in the HTTP headers. This can be used for serving a special web page for browsers with quirks, or it can be used to block certain browsers.
It may look something like this:
But you can use an extension like this one to spoof your user agent and send out one that corresponds to a chromium browser.
Grazie for the link