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Yes, but now I can’t convince my family to use Firefox because it makes part of the internet unusable which is a deal breaker to them. Doesn’t matter if it’s t
by stingraycharles 2y ago
Yes, but now I can’t convince my family to use Firefox because it makes part of the internet unusable which is a deal breaker to them.
Doesn’t matter if it’s the sites that are the problem, Firefox has lost momentum to such a degree that sites don’t care anymore. So they should tread carefully with features like this.
- auscompgeek 2y agoYou have to opt-in to turning tracking protection to strict. When you're about to there's a prominent warning that it will likely break some websites. Using Firefox in its default configuration shouldn't break websites.
- dbg31415 2y agoYup. This is correct. Firefox taking a hard nose approach here makes it impossible to use this on parents / grandparents computers to help keep them safe. I don’t mind losing Twitter… but I can’t speak for others in my family. Just sucks. But on popular sites that run blockers, there should be like a little pop-up that says, “Give me access, and let this dumpster fire burn.”
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- stingraycharles 2y agoI think back in the day when DRM was being introduced, Firefox refused to implement it, which caused many people to just switch to Chrome or Internet Explorer. So even when they still had a considerable market share, these kind of stances may actually be detrimental to their user base.
- Qwertious 2y agoTreading carefully is selling out - Mozilla can't win here - they'll be slammed for selling out, or slammed for breaking all the good websites.