this post was submitted on 17 May 2024
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Seems like @firefox @mozilla is doing something right

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[–] [email protected] 204 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That or he fired them, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah isn’t this related to CORS?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year 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”

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago

thank god firefox automatically blocks malware

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@the100rabh @firefox @mozilla I get the same screen only when I enter X. The solution is not to enter X 😎

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

aka Twitter

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@llionesista @firefox @mozilla someone shared a link for something, not sure what though. dont think I will figure it out that easily 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Try to have a look through archive.org, and archive.today

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Why would X try to gather your assassination coordinates?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

U can probably allow x to load twitter using umatrix

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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