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submitted 8 months ago by TheBat@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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

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[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes, it's been an absolutely obnoxious experience. And if you're using a VPN, forget about it.

[-] gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 8 months ago

For me it doesn't let me pass if i have changed my user agent

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Nope. What sort of problems?

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

It gets stuck on the 'verify you are human' page.

Chromium has no such problems.

[-] scrion@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

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@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

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@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

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

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 8 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.

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

Are you blocking JavaScript?

I haven't even seen that page in years, despite recently switching from chrome to FF with all the common privacy plugins.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

No but I do have ublock origin, privacy badger, containers, user agent switcher etc.

[-] Lath@kbin.social 0 points 8 months ago

Yet I do have such problems with Chromium. Not universal though, only on some websites and only sometimes.

[-] Kallioapina@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Yes, Cloudflare has caused a lot of problems with its broken captcha the last few weeks/month. I use Brave as a backup and it lets that through no problem, which is sad.

[-] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 8 months ago

I've had to disable JShelter for it to let me in.

[-] kylian0087@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

What I have noticed is that when using the ESR release you get blocked much more often for some reason.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

Its* privacy-related settings.

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago

It is privacy settings.

this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2024
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