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

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    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.

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      Samesies. What has become increasingly frustrating is that many opt-out emails require me to disable tracker control. It should be illegal to force tracking to avoid future tracking

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      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 !

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        while still being able to use your own DNS/wireguard VPN/proxy…

        Wait, I thought the “downside” of this app was that it used your VPN connection, compared to NextDNS or the built in DNS feature of Android.

        I also use AdAway rooted version and not really looking into changing it, but if you could clarify about this I could happily see it as an alternative :)

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    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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    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.

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      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.

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      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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        I’m not so sure. I check in on the hot mess that is Twitter from time to time and it looks to me like the advertisers are returning from the ads that I have seen. I think it comes down to how willing Musk is to burn money on when Twitter actually dies and I bet he can find friends of a certain type to sell equity too to keep the shit show going.

        I think we have reached the point that those that are willing to hold their noses are staying and those that aren’t have gone and that’s your new user figures.

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      Well Twitter is still used by Musk fanboys, right wingers, from people who don’t understand Mastodon and/or the Fediverse and probably from people who use it for porn.

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          I don’t but many people do since many creators use Twitter for that. I personally don’t get why they don’t switch to Mastodon or another Fediverse software since there are probably NSFW instances too and if not some of them could team up and create one.

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          You go to accounts that post porn and look at the content. You can easily find it by searching.

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    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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        Every software project, without exception, has a testing environment.

        Some even have a separate production environment too.

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          And some projects only test in Chrome. If we’re lucky, they test in Firefox with default settings.

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              Welcome to the Internet, were you can never be sure if Satire is Satire or somebody’s genuine opinion until they confirm it’s the former using a meme.

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                You’re right about that in many cases.

                That post? It two sentences.

                Second sentence is a joke that couldn’t be taken seriously. As if it were a knock knock joke or something. …right?!

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                  Somebody who is not a software developer or is a junior one who only ever worked in one or two major projects and got lucky (really depends on the country and the industry) might believe it.

                  It’s hardly unusual for people who only ever worked in one place to think everything is like that, and some of those do get lucky (not all software development environments out there are like the US Tech Industry) and end up right after Uni in a place with some good senior techies that make sure environments are properly set up.

                  Also in-house development in industries were software is mission critical and new versions breaking Production might result in massive losses or death (for example, Finance) always have proper Testing and Staging environments - you don’t really want to lose millions of dollars (possibly hundreds of millions if unlucky) by having all the traders in a Trading Floor twidling their thumbs because somebody didn’t do, before pushing to Production, proper integration testing in Staging of some comms protocol changes done for two different systems.