Seems like @mozilla is doing something right

2 years ago by 100rabh™ to c/firefox

cyrus 197 points 2 years ago

This issue comes from the fact that even though the domain is now changed to x.com, it still tries to load content from twitter.com which Firefox thinks is social media tracking because it's coming from a different domain than the one you're on.

It's a hilarious and dumb oversight with this change.

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Lucidlethargy 46 points 2 years ago

Web developer here: This is 100% sloppy code on the part of Twitter. Like... I can't believe the amount of incompetence required.

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nexas_XIII 21 points 2 years ago

I can, didn’t all the better developers leave when Elon took over?

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EnderMB 7 points 2 years ago

One of the managers in my org used to work there, and lost his job post-takeover. Apparently most that were left were on L1B visas, so had no opportunity to move elsewhere. His theory was that Elon knew exactly what he was doing, because he now has a team of engineers in their late twenties and early thirties that'll basically do whatever he wants, or risk uprooting their families back to their home country.

They're probably still great engineers, but when you're doing the job of multiple teams, or things have zero coverage, shit is going to slip.

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AeonFelis 4 points 2 years ago

My headcanon is that they are still there, forced to watch as Musk personally "improves" their code.

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PHLAK 2 points 2 years ago

That or he fired them, yeah.

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dependencyinjection 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah isn’t this related to CORS?

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FriendBesto 1 point 2 years ago

Likely on purpose. X wants to data mine you more.

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cyrus 1 point 2 years ago

They should've just moved the other twitter domains too 🫠

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Hadriscus 4 points 2 years ago

Totally. I got the error message yesterday and didn't try once to circumvent it. Twitter is that important to me

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casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer 1 point 2 years ago
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galoisghost 52 points 2 years ago

I saw this today. A big red “we see there’s a problem with our site but fuck you we’re not fixing it”

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cupcakezealot 49 points 2 years ago

thank god firefox automatically blocks malware

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danc4498 45 points 2 years ago

Classic feature not a bug

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Nobody 8 points 2 years ago

For real. No longer compatible with whatever bullshit Elon is pulling today.

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llionesista 35 points 2 years ago path: 0 10110161, hotness: undefined, score: 35, children: 2
dvdnet62 19 points 2 years ago

aka Twitter

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the100rabh 2 points 2 years ago path: 0 10110161 10110322, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0
hypertown 18 points 2 years ago

Looks like Elon finally forces x down everyone's throat and every twitter.com link redirects to x.com. (Funny enough I tried Firefox Nighty and there is no redirect so maybe this is random based on UA) Also I'm not 100% sure but enhanced tracking protection probably breaks x.com because there are still API calls to twitter.com under the hood, since those are different domains it just gets blocked. Solution is either twitter fixes their shitty code or Mozilla adds exception.

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z3rOR0ne 12 points 2 years ago

Well my Nitter redirect on Android Mull Browser still works, which is all I barely care about.

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Lucidlethargy 11 points 2 years ago

Something on Firefox keeps blocking x embeds as well, asking me if I want to load them instead. I love it!

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Quintus 9 points 2 years ago

That's the Privacy Badger. I love using it aswell.

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formergijoe 4 points 2 years ago

Why would X try to gather your assassination coordinates?!

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Ballistic_86 1 point 2 years ago

I know those issues, I like those issues, let me browse your shit site with those issues

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muntedcrocodile 0 points 2 years ago

U can probably allow x to load twitter using umatrix

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the100rabh 5 points 2 years ago

@muntedcrocodile Probably dont really want to load twitter all that much. Would say thank you Firefox for this.

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The_ERROR 0 points 2 years ago path: 0 10110838, hotness: undefined, score: 0, children: 0
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