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by VancouverMan 746 days ago
> (Weird how no other website has issues like this…)

The Firefox 126 preferences UI for the "Strict" setting shows this warning:

"Stronger protection, but may cause some sites or content to break."

When the panel for that setting is expanded, it shows an additional warning:

"Heads up! This setting may cause some websites to not display content or work correctly. If a site seems broken, you may want to turn off tracking protection for that site to load all content."

Presumably such problems are not unexpected or unheard of if two warnings are deemed necessary for that setting.

2 comments

Slight problem: you're assuming I use Firefox and have that setting on "Strict". Only half of that assumption is correct: I use Firefox. But the setting is on "Standard"…

(I'm not a web person, so I'll save my speculation on what is breaking there, but Twitter is the only webpage I experience as broken. It is absolutely possible I mucked around with some setting 5 years ago and completely forgot about it. Or Twitter is doing weird things. Probably a combination of both.)

There is also mention why those specific sites are broken:

> Firefox blocks the following:

> Social media trackers

> Cross-site cookies in all windows

> Tracking content in all windows

> Cryptominers

> Known and suspected fingerprinters