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sima@chaos.social

🐧sima🐧

ever more realizing how many websites break without disabling firefox tracking protection

apparently only bots and incompatible browser don't like to be tracked, not real humans 😔

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josh@joshtriplett.org

Josh Triplett

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I haven't run into this yet; what are some websites that break?
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sima@chaos.social

🐧sima🐧

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@josh

office365 and a few other of microsoft's cloud offerings tell you it's an unsupported browser when it's enabled

random shopping carts tend to break on various sites, or trigger their bot detection and things like that. this is often silently

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@sima @josh hmm... just a friendly advice but maybe you should not buy anything from those web stores? :-) i mean for me it sounds more like that the web browser recommends you not buy anything given the faulty security... so it is a feature almost
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josh@joshtriplett.org

Josh Triplett

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Interesting. Thanks for the tip; I haven't had to use Office 365 much, but this *does* sound similar to a login issue I'd had there.

Hopefully Firefox can improve their tracking protection to reduce the instances of such problems.

I can't help but wonder if this could be treated as a dry run for adblocking (which has similar issues).
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