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

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Post by manuelmoreale »

blfr wrote: post #85
manuelmoreale wrote: post #82

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I’m gonna take your words at face value and ask you a question: what do you gain in gettin access to that news a few minutes in advance?

First, it was hours. Second, I'm there more for the tpot/schizo/alternative content. Most importantly though, it's not just a couple hours of difference, but the content is different: raw, with live comments (from the people you follow pulled up), memes, etc. It's the vibe you used to find on usenet and then blogosphere.

Ok so first it was a matter of timing. Now it's become a matter of vibes and type of content. I get what you're saying, don't get me wrong, I just don't think a site where news are commented by randos mixed with memes and trolls is an important site we have to bend over backwards to preserve. But maybe that's just me.

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

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Post by diego_sandoval »

jak2k wrote: post #49

There is a solution, but don't use it, use mastodon: In the settings, enable Firefox containers. This allows you to seperate the cookies of X from all other sites. Also install uBlockOrigin to block all trackers on X itself.

Actually, don't use Mastodon either, it's full of the same low quality commentary that you find on Twitter.

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

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Post by widea »

EdwardDiego wrote: post #89
kapitanjakc wrote: post #84

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Cross site cookies are required for educational content sharing via LTI. Every time I enable that feature, I have to write essays to client's security team for allowing it. So frustrating.

Sorry, what's LTI?

Probably 'Learning Tools Interoperability'.

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

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Post by adra »

manuelmoreale wrote: post #83
quaintdev wrote: post #60

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Pretty sure this is sentiment of the crowd here. But I'm not sure if the general public will see it that way.

I doubt the general public uses Firefox with strict tracking turned on (unfortunately)

Let's be honest, the general public isn't using Firefox, isn't using x.com and has never heard of hacker News and if taught, they'd be afraid you were trying to scam them. We live in a pretty deep filter bubble.

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

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

jcranmer wrote: post #61
ranger_danger wrote: post #17

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What is wrong with respecting people's right to have opinions you don't like? Isn't that what everyone wanted?

The beef people have with Twitter after the Musk takeover is that it has objectively gotten worse at upholding free speech ideals, even as its new owner claims that doing so is one of his main reasons for taking over the social media company. Pre-takeover, the company was generally considered to be the best of the major outfits in standing up to censorious dipshit politicians [1], routinely challenging government att…

What we really need here is some anti-censorship technology that makes it so an authoritarian regime that tries to block its political opponents, fails. Make the ultimatum "block these accounts or we block the whole site" toothless. Have every major site using it by default so you're not just blocking Twitter but also Facebook and YouTube and Office365 and Wikipedia, and it acts as a generic VPN that allows anyone anywhere to access anything else their country tries to censor.

In theory "just use a VPN" already does this, but it should be built into the browser so it happens automatically and unsophisticated users don't have to do anything to make it happen.

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

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Post by manuelmoreale »

plonk wrote: post #86
manuelmoreale wrote: post #82

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I’m gonna take your words at face value and ask you a question: what do you gain in gettin access to that news a few minutes in advance?

Other media is frustrating because it's always heavily filtered, has an agenda, and always talks like a PR release. It's like they're trying to keep some image of a respectable paper and so have to write in that stupid title - subtitle that repeats the title - first paragraph that repeats the subtitle - 30 paragraphs in complete disorder, half of which are a waste of time format Edit: someone on Twitter obviously als…

Here's the thing, I agree. But also, you do know that the various news sites have an agenda. It's a fact. And the way you work around it is by reading from multiple sources that have different agendas and form your own opinion based on that.

The random Twitter user though? Who the fuck knows. He might be in just for the lols. Maybe they're just bored. Maybe they're actually knowledgeable. You just don't know.

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

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Post by anticensor »

db48x wrote: post #90
NewJazz wrote: post #78

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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.

Don't guess. Just read the source code!

Yes, it is the case: it still tries to load assets from twitter.com and twimg.com.

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

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Post by rinze »

manuelmoreale wrote: post #82
blfr wrote: post #73

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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…

I’m gonna take your words at face value and ask you a question: what do you gain in gettin access to that news a few minutes in advance?

He can share them before you do and get more likes.
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