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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.

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[–] daisyKutter@lemmy.ml 104 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Stop using twitter for f*cks sake

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 22 points 5 months ago
[–] TootGuitar@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 months ago (18 children)

This is the internet; you can say “fuck” here.

[–] daisyKutter@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sir this is a Wendys, go rant somewhere else for fucks sake

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Excuse me, I'm going to have to ask you not to curse here.

[–] Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

this is a Christian Minecraft server

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (11 children)

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.

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[–] MaximilianKohler@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (8 children)

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.

[–] TootGuitar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] Treczoks@kbin.social 44 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Which means that Firefox works properly on that aspect. Good.

[–] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Is protecting you from malware

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[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Seems to me like a good reason to disable x.com

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[–] kworpy@lemm.ee 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We're getting closer and closer to the complete destruction of this worthless shithole, keep it up elon!

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

Unfortunately, shaking off users who are digitally conscious enough to use Firefox (and recommend alternatives) probably improves Twitter's odds.

[–] RoosterBoy@lemm.ee 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

Then just... enable the containers in private tabs? The option is right there in the extensions menu.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Every time someone writes x.com I immediately think they're talking about a porn site. What a shit rebrand. Or what a perfect name I guess?

[–] EunieIsTheBus@feddit.de 3 points 5 months ago

Porn sites are feeling discredited by comparing them to x-formerly-known-as-twitter.com

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The thing people miss when they boast "wElL I DoNT uSe iT sO nOt mY pRoBlEm" is that an increasingly large proportion of our society does use these shit platforms, and for longer periods too. We have to live in this world with all the brainrotted zombies so it is actually our problem too.

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[–] set_secret@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (7 children)
[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think it is called the network effect. People are still using Twitter because the messages they want to see are being posted there, and those messages are being posted there because that's where the audience is. So, basically, people are locked in.

This also means that any loss in user count has a double effect, as not only users are lost, but the utility of the service for the remaining users decreases. So, what I'm saying is, if Elon continues this way, at some point there will be a large exodus of users from Twitter, as each loss of users reduces the utility of Twitter further, triggering a chain reaction.

Of course, we can't know when that happens, and since we're both on Lemmy, we've already self-selected as people with little tolerance for enshittification.

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[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The real question is why people are still using that dumpster fire of a website.

[–] airportline@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

To answer your question, it's inertia. People need to be forced of Twitter if before they join Mastodon/Bluesky/Threads

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

i have no idea why people who are concerned about privacy would use anything associated with elon musk.

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

Glad I jumped off the platform.

[–] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

Twatter is for rubes. Who cares?

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] MaximilianKohler@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago
[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

What's up with all the posts about this porn site?

[–] cyrus@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

brb installing firefox

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Twitter forcing me to stop using Twitter is an incredible galaxy brain suicide maneuver. I can't wait to see it explode spectacularly in a blaze of stupid right in elon's face

[–] aliteral@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Fuck you Musk!

[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe disabling WebRTC, fingerprinting & use AntiDPI (like green tunnel or Adguard) will help

[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think i figured out what cause this (seems they have script to prevent strict protection from Mozilla)

[–] krigo666@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Glad I don't use Xitter.

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

issue detected: we are having trouble collecting enough personal info

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