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Is anyone having issues with cloudflare websites? (self.firefox)

submitted 9 months ago by TheBat to c/firefox

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This 'protection' seems to have a problem with Firefox and it's privacy related settings. 😡

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[–] scrion 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If you set protection settings all the way up in Firefox, Cloudflare will get stuck, yes. I do not consider this a shortcoming of Firefox though, my browser is doing the right thing.

Previously, I kept a Chromium instance around, but now I use a second Firefox profile that still has tracking protection enabled, 3rd party cookies restricted etc., but set to a level where e. g. Cloudflare still works. I trust Firefox to better act out my interests. Using -P, the second profile can be started without launching Firefox's profile manager.

With browsers beginning to actively fight fingerprinting techniques, I expect more sites (legit or not) that rely on these techniques to break. That is fine by me.

[–] TheBat 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

With browsers beginning to actively fight fingerprinting techniques, I expect more sites (legit or not) that rely on these techniques to break. That is fine by me.

Yeah but I expected Cloudflare to be on top of it, not act like some scappy website strung together by duct tape.

[–] elbarto777 3 points 9 months ago

I think OP is saying that Cloudflare is behaving that way by design.

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

This pretty much never happens to me and I always have Firefox set to strictest. I haven't messed around too much with about:config though.