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X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled
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Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled
#202We've fixed this issue on the Firefox side ~2 months ago. Here is the bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1897379 It's possible that you have an extension installed that blocks e.g. Twitter's CDN. We've seen issues like that with the Disconnect Firefox extension.
This fix is no longer relevant as they no longer use twitter.com as of later today.
Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled
#203How will the remaining 97% of users handle this? /s
It's a bug on Firefox's end related to the twitter.com > x.com migration.
Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled
#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you suggesting that, in respecting people’s right to have opinions GP doesn’t like, GP must make an account and, in their view, endorse those opinions? Or are you suggesting that in merely not liking or endorsing those opinions, GP is somehow denying their right ? Does this just apply to Twitter, or should GP also join every forum allowing public signup, to give fair and balanced attention to each of their respec…
Using a service that doesn't suppress some opinions you don't like is not an endorsement of those opinions. Or else you'd better figure out whether it's easier to cancel your home internet after you no longer have a phone number or the other way around so you know which one to cancel first.
What’s your point? How does it relate to my comment?
Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled
#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Twitter loads some javascript file from edgecastcdn.net and twimg.com. The browser blocks these loads because they are from third–party domains which is a big risk. Loading a script from a third party exposes anything secret or private on the page to the third party. Of course twimg.com is _probably_ owned and operated by Twitter, but it could be anyone. They’re not even registered through the same registrar, they ha…
What are some tools/techniques that one can use to figure out the above using Firefox?
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
The mental effect of 'its different from mainstream, thus better and look at me how clever I am for finding it out 5 minutes before most of group'. Teenagers love to position themselves in such roles due to insecurities, although I don't think anybody is completely immune to this. Still, don't get why regular folks are so obsessed with getting desperately the news first, unless you ie trade on it or work for Reuters.…
> The mental effect of 'its different from mainstream, thus better and look at me how clever I am for finding it out 5 minutes before most of group'. It's not because of lag time, and it's not because it's different from mainstream, it's due to growing frustration with older media that I slowly developed before I even knew about Twitter and my experience following interesting people on there. It's gotten worse since…
Well, charitable for normal situations IMHO it isn't. Some sort of OCD-ish behavior re info feed. I see it on myself - the less I focus on all crap coming from news, regardless of form or source, and more I focus on my own wellbeing, my close family and friends, the happier I am.
There are truly very few news which are seriously relevant to my life, and I suspect its the same for rest of us. Just because there is a big crowd of similarly-impacted folks I ain't going to normalize such toxic behavior.
Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled
#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is wrong with respecting people's right to have opinions you don't like? Isn't that what everyone wanted?
Free speech is hate speech according to some Edit: I just committed hate speech!
Nah my dude, HN just doesn't respond kindly to stupid comments.
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The problem with that is that the definition of intolerance tends to get weasel-worded into whatever argument suits the trolls.
Not only that, the necessary resolution to the paradox is inherently narrow. Suppose you have some fools who assert that their opponents' ideas are too dangerous to be heard and have to be censored. Actually doing this is itself too dangerous to allow because once the censorship is in place it would be used to quash dissent and suppress the truth and people would be punished for challenging the prevailing dogma, even…
I totally agree. The problem is that we don't have such a system, and as a result, the proposition of harm is in itself already a credible threat and therefore harmful. Personally speaking, to reduce that harm, there's not a lot I can do to make these propositions less credible, so I'm left with trying to give these threats less of a platform.
I will note that from my perspective it is a logical conclusion that the insufficient policing and regulation of violence (and tools of violence) in the US in particular is directly detrimental to the expression of free speech.
Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled
#209Good thing there are alternative websites to visit and actually read something positive and interesting.
Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agree but if I have to bet on one or the other I'm not putting my money on the Twitter user. And you can apply the same reasoning to literally everything. You know nothing about this random doctor who's going to perform surgery. Should you perhaps let some other random guy on twitter that claims to be a surgeon do it? After all even doctors from "most respected" universities made some stupid mistakes. It's good to be…
> Agree but if I have to bet on one or the other I'm not putting my money on the Twitter user. Twitter has millions of users. Some of them are actually trustworthy sources, moreso than conflicted profit-seeking media outlets. In particular, a lot of them are subject matter experts in a particular field, instead of generalists trying to summarize something they don't really understand or put a partisan spin on it. The…
> Twitter has millions of users. Some of them are actually trustworthy sources
Some of them are teenagers that pay for a blue "Verified" checkmark with their mom's credit card. Modern Twitter is about as deserving of your trust as an email from a Nigerian prince.