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Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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Post by Grimblewald »

chii wrote: post #23
OutOfHere wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In fairness, Strict Tracking Protection is not a Firefox problem; it is very clearly a Firefox feature. The problem is the sites. X is not really an important site anyway.

> The problem is the sites. no, the problem is that sites can _afford_ to block firefox, because their share is low enough that they can take the hit. What we need to do, as tech evangalists, is to push the marketshare of firefox higher, so that they cannot be ignored by sites, due to significant traffic. This is how the open internet can preserve both privacy and control of the computing environment. if your friends…

why force a shit website to allow us to view it? X is a cess pool of miss-information, over-selling, over-hyping, and generally the worst the internet has to offer. At least 4chan wears its degenerate nature on it's sleeve.

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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Post by godelski »

I have strict enabled and I have no problem accessing. I even switched off, back on, and restarted the browser. On Mac Air M2 with FF 128.0 FWIW

Other users also noted Safari doesn't load and I couldn't reproduce.

Edit: I guess maybe a good context for a friendly reminder. You can use revanced to edit the Twitter APK and you can hide adds and sanitize sharing links

(dear god, tracking links are so ridiculous sometimes. Am I the only one who is annoyed when I get a text that's a single link and is like 10k characters? With how much time and money these companies spend on UX I'm surprised this is okay. Seriously, can you all stop doing this? I know some users here are the same people in charge of design)

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

drooopy wrote: post #8

Strict tracking in firefox blocks the following: Social media trackers, Cross-site cookies in all windows, Tracking content in all windows, Cryptominers, Known and suspected fingerprinters. I wouldn't wanna use a site that relies on any of the above to function anyway.

The question is, what's going on here? Is this Firefox blocking some path/subdomain/cookie on x.com because it's used by their tracking widget, but the same is also used by some important part of the site itself, so it's essentially a false positive and Mozilla need to adjust the filter to be more specific? Or is the site detecting the ad blocker and purposely refusing to load?

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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Post by dbg31415 »

stingraycharles wrote: post #27
OutOfHere wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In fairness, Strict Tracking Protection is not a Firefox problem; it is very clearly a Firefox feature. The problem is the sites. X is not really an important site anyway.

Yes, but now I can’t convince my family to use Firefox because it makes part of the internet unusable which is a deal breaker to them. Doesn’t matter if it’s the sites that are the problem, Firefox has lost momentum to such a degree that sites don’t care anymore. So they should tread carefully with features like this.

Yup. This is correct.

Firefox taking a hard nose approach here makes it impossible to use this on parents / grandparents computers to help keep them safe.

I don’t mind losing Twitter… but I can’t speak for others in my family. Just sucks. But on popular sites that run blockers, there should be like a little pop-up that says, “Give me access, and let this dumpster fire burn.”

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