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.
Me and my homies never used twitter in the first place.
My homies and I*
Pardon me, but do you have any Grey Poupon?
Microsoft teams also stopped working on Firefox… Guess they don’t like the tracking prevention stuff. :)
Teams doesn’t work in the first place.
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.
Why would anybody test that first in QA anyway?
Yeah Elon is a shoot first kind of guy anyways.
Every software project, without exception, has a testing environment.
Some even have a separate production environment too.
Oh you sweet summer child…
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.
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?!
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.
And some projects only test in Chrome. If we’re lucky, they test in Firefox with default settings.
Find another platform if you don’t like it. I don’t use Twitter anymore just because I found other platforms I prefer.
This is a feature, not a bug. It’s designed to wean you off using twitter.
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.
How do you use Xitter for porn??
You go to accounts that post porn and look at the content. You can easily find it by searching.
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.
Porn… Until enough adult accounts move over to Mastodon or Blue Sky.
what is blue sky ?
The Twitter alternative created by the original creator of Twitter
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.
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.
brb installing firefox
brave browser with aggressive adblocking still works.
The real question is why people are still using that dumpster fire of a website.
Nobody sane wants to “use” it, but sometimes someone will inconsiderately link something on there.
I use it to scream into the void and be completely uncivil because I’m civil and soft-spoken in the rest of life. In other words, I go to the dumpster when I feel like treating Trump supporters like trash :)
To answer your question, it’s inertia. People need to be forced of Twitter if before they join Mastodon/Bluesky/Threads
X can’t avoid to seeing a growing amount of middlefingers, at least in the EU.
saying they’re forcing you to disable tracking protection is giving them too much credit.
they basically just botched the switchover from one domain to another and forgot about extra tracking domains etc so firefox flagged it as coming from a different domain.
I can’t even access it on Edge.
But it directly says to disable enhanced tracking protection. Weird fuck up.
Yes, confirmed it now works again on Firefox Mobile. Today was the day where they switched over the domain, so I guess that makes sense.
issue detected: we are having trouble collecting enough personal info
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.
Looks like they’re in A/B testing right now. You can have maximal impact by avoiding using twitter on those devices for the next few weeks.
I’ve experienced no such issue. I use hardened Firefox for some stuff including Twitter, never encountered this.
Probably doing it in waves of users/countries
