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by KennyBlanken 1635 days ago
I'm sorry, but the vast majority of websites handle umatrix and ublock plus assorted other privacy tools, just fucking fine, often when I haven't enabled any javascript beyond the same domain stuff.

Then there are the sites that are kinda/mostly broken until I enable a couple of obvious exceptions I should probably have universally enabled. That's fair.

Then there are the sites that it takes a minute or two of messing around to get to work..I have to whitelist 10+ different domains for them. That's irritating.

Then there are the sites that I can't seem to get working properly at all, and eventually give up and just open in a private mode tab in Safari, because I trust that combo the most.

Parent commenter was right: Twitter is a dumpster fire that throws a hissy fit at the drop of a hat, in way very few other sites do; it's almost like they do it purposefully out of spite.

It's a fucking glorified PLAIN text messenger. There is no excuse for the level of complexity and unreliability of the code they throw at browsers, from such a large organization with such supposed high-level engineering talent.

1 comments

Twitter works fine with JS/XHR enabled in uMatrix for first party and *.twimg.com. It’d be better if they didn’t bring twimg.com into it, better still if they supported operation without client-side scripting, but I don’t observe the problems you’re reporting.