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

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Post by blfr »

OhMeadhbh wrote: post #26

So I get strict tracking protection and I can't open Twitter, no matter how hard I try? I'm not sure I see the downside.

Twitter is by far the best source of news and analysis currently. Outpaced only in some areas by niche, usually also crowd-sourced, sites like HN.

A week ago twitter had pictures and videos from several angles of assasination attempt on Trump when media still reported "an incident." The difference is wild. Ditching twitter is like going back from old-school news tv to a telegraph.

Anyway, I have strict tracking protection enabled and x.com loads fine. Firefox 128 on Ubuntu, official snap.

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

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Post by hbogert »

hatenberg wrote: post #54
msravi wrote: post #41

Works fine for me on Firefox mobile with strict tracking protection enabled.

On IOS that's just Safari with a firefox logo...

if that were the case, i wouldn't have such problems with client certificates.

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

#78

Post by NewJazz »

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #47
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?

This is a complete guess, but it could have to do with the twitter.com -> x.com migration. Still trying to load twitter.com assets, which are now third party.

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

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Post by b0ner_t0ner »

Just redirect to Nitter:

    // ==UserScript==
    // @name        Redirect to Nitter
    // @version     1.0
    // @description Automatically redirect from twitter to nitter
    // @match       *://twitter.com/*
    // @match       *://x.com/*
    // @run-at      document-start
    // ==/UserScript==

    (function() {
        const nitterInstance = 'nitter.poast.org'
        location.href = `https://${nitterInstance}` + location.pathname // + '&' + location.search
    })();

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

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Post by NewJazz »

blfr wrote: post #73
OhMeadhbh wrote: post #26

So I get strict tracking protection and I can't open Twitter, no matter how hard I try? I'm not sure I see the downside.

Twitter is by far the best source of news and analysis currently. Outpaced only in some areas by niche, usually also crowd-sourced, sites like HN. A week ago twitter had pictures and videos from several angles of assasination attempt on Trump when media still reported "an incident." The difference is wild. Ditching twitter is like going back from old-school news tv to a telegraph. Anyway, I have strict tracking prote…

So your definition of "best" news is fastest available?
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