Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com
There were no "issues"; everything was working completely fine. This is a deliberate decision to force people to turn off tracking protection.
I saw a recommendation to use Firefox's container extension https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers, but it's disabled in private browsing windows, and I always use private browsing windows.
Stop using twitter for f*cks sake
This is the internet; you can say “fuck” here.
Sir this is a Wendys, go rant somewhere else for fucks sake
Excuse me, I'm going to have to ask you not to curse here.
It really baffles me how often I still see it talked about. Especially on Lemmy. I never liked it myself but now the musk owns it, I would've assumed there wouldn't be much controversy here: it's dead and gone, move on, people.
Problem is it isn’t gone and it’s still helping foment huge political/social issues in the US. It impacts us whether we want it to or not.
Doesn’t mean I use it. I don’t. But it negatively impacts my life all the same.
Ah yes politics, the thing that can be discussed in 140 characters or less. Twitter is definitely the prime place for this discourse.
I get what you’re saying, I really do, I just think its super fucked up that our politicians have collectively decided this is THE place to engage people when there is no political topic that could possibly be discussed properly this way. I’m pretty sure I already exceeded the limit just saying this.
Seriously.
I made accounts on Mastodon and Blue Sky but most people still use Twitter, so if there's info you're looking for, or if you want to share things, you're forced to use what most people are using.
I deleted my 2007-era Twitter account in 2022 and not once have I felt like I was missing out on any “info” or felt like I wasn’t able to share things.
Thats cool but it is a transitional thing. If you keep going back the transition doesn’t happen. Stand your ground.
Which means that Firefox works properly on that aspect. Good.
Is protecting you from malware
didn't work; elon musk still breathes.
The real question is why people are still using that dumpster fire of a website.
To answer your question, it's inertia. People need to be forced of Twitter if before they join Mastodon/Bluesky/Threads
i have no idea why people who are concerned about privacy would use anything associated with elon musk.
The Gods forbid I try to literally read something
The real question is why people keep using Twitter despite how impossible it is to even visit the website
Until the creators of the content you need switch, it's one of if not the hub where the content is.
This would be easy to "solve" from the reader end if Nitter was still operational, but I haven't heard from the project or from any alternative in ages.
If you stop going to twitter to see the content, the creators would be forced to move. How important can the content be?
This is a deliberate decision to force people to turn off tracking protection.
No this is a hilarious fuckup where they forgot to move twitter.com, pbs.twimg.com and more off of the Twitter domains, so Firefox started blocking it because to Firefox it looks like Social Media trackers.
Mozilla already pushed a fix.
Why would anybody test that first in QA anyway?
Every software project, without exception, has a testing environment.
Some even have a separate production environment too.
Yeah Elon is a shoot first kind of guy anyways.
The question is, why there still people using this shit ?
Depending on the research subject, people built networks on Twitter. It's hard to move on another platform as you will loose your network.
People are still using that shit because other people they want to interact with are still using that shit. Network effects are hard to break.
Same reasons why people still use Facebook - too many folks who think it's still a good thing.
God I can't wait for that website to die already
I feel like people will still be saying this in ten years (sadly)
Seems to me like a good reason to disable x.com
I have an app called TrackerControl. It blocks a ton of shit. Here is one rule of thumb I have, if a website breaks because of this app, I'm not going to it. I don't need it. I can live without it. So many apps work no problem. The ones who don't, they want to fingerprint and track me.
Hey :) may I suggest rethinkDNS to have a more granular control over your installed application? Also it's possible to block everything except the apps you trust while still being able to use your own DNS/wireguard VPN/proxy...
Also If you want a more in depth overview of every connection your phone attempts to make, give Pcapdroid a try !
Why even use twitter in the first place?
Forcing you
They can't make you
I just assumed this is because they fired all their experienced people and they don’t know how to host their website, so you’ve got junk coming from all sorts of domains in their attempt to patch something together that works.
That's exactly what it is. Firefox's advanced tracking protection blocks connections to social media sites from other sites so that social media can't see your behavior on the rest of the Internet.
Twitter started moving some things to a different domain and FF saw it as a third-party, blocking connections from it to the old Twitter domains.
Yet another reason the rebrand is dumb.
Just block Twitter. Why does anyone use it anymore?
This is a feature, not a bug. It's designed to wean you off using twitter.
Glad I don't use Xitter.
Such an easy solution for that. Don’t use the Nazi chat
Microsoft teams also stopped working on Firefox... Guess they don't like the tracking prevention stuff. :)
How might we help and encourage people to leave Twitter?
I disabled my adblock for Twitter to see a update about game server maintenance. It showed me random posts, nothing from this year. Literally unusable site when you can't even see the latest tweets. Had to have other people tell me maintenance was extended...
Me and my homies never used twitter in the first place.
Fuck Elon. Fuck X. Both are K holes.
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