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Am I reading this right? Firefox now implements special logic just for Facebook?

by hypertele-Xii 5y ago

Hallucinaut 5y ago
They have had a special logic AGAINST Facebook for a long time now, via Facebook containers
- gpvos 5y ago
  That's a separate extension, with Facebook clearly in its name.
wisniewskit 5y ago
Yes, though in this case it's for sites relying on Facebook's login authenticator, not really Facebook itself. SmartBlock also contains special logic for Google Analytics, Google Publisher Tags, and other trackers that cause sites to break when blocked. It's not meant for their benefit, but the user's. In fact all browsers have special web-compatibility interventions for sites which don't work correctly in them. Even Chrome. And sometimes even for major sites and services, especially when it comes to anti-tracking features.
opheliate 5y ago
If you're interested in special logic for specific websites, the WebKit Quirks.cpp [0] is well worth a look over. 0: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/page/Quirks.cpp https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/pa...
zinekeller 5y ago
Uhm, there's about:compat, edge://compat/, WebKit Quirks (https://trac.webkit.org/browser/webkit/trunk/Source/WebCore/page/Quirks.cpp https://trac.webkit.org/browser/webkit/trunk/Source/WebCore/...), and Chrome (https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:content/renderer/render_thread_impl.cc https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:con... and https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:components/shared_highlighting/core/common/disabled_sites.cc https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:com...).
- wisniewskit 5y ago
  Funny enough, I also helped write the about:compat UI and work on the related site interventions. Site compatibility is a surprisingly broad topic that doesn't tend to fit neatly into our ideal vision of the web.

Am I reading this right? Firefox now implements special logic just for Facebook?

Hallucinaut 5y ago

They have had a special logic AGAINST Facebook for a long time now, via Facebook containers

gpvos 5y ago
That's a separate extension, with Facebook clearly in its name.

wisniewskit 5y ago

Yes, though in this case it's for sites relying on Facebook's login authenticator, not really Facebook itself. SmartBlock also contains special logic for Google Analytics, Google Publisher Tags, and other trackers that cause sites to break when blocked. It's not meant for their benefit, but the user's. In fact all browsers have special web-compatibility interventions for sites which don't work correctly in them. Even Chrome. And sometimes even for major sites and services, especially when it comes to anti-tracking features.

opheliate 5y ago

If you're interested in special logic for specific websites, the WebKit Quirks.cpp [0] is well worth a look over. 0: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/page/Quirks.cpp https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/pa...

zinekeller 5y ago

Uhm, there's about:compat, edge://compat/, WebKit Quirks (https://trac.webkit.org/browser/webkit/trunk/Source/WebCore/page/Quirks.cpp https://trac.webkit.org/browser/webkit/trunk/Source/WebCore/...), and Chrome (https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:content/renderer/render_thread_impl.cc https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:con... and https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:components/shared_highlighting/core/common/disabled_sites.cc https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:com...).

wisniewskit 5y ago
Funny enough, I also helped write the about:compat UI and work on the related site interventions. Site compatibility is a surprisingly broad topic that doesn't tend to fit neatly into our ideal vision of the web.