Is it worth supporting Firefox?

Re:Is it worth supporting Firefox? by DanBC on Monday May 07, 2018 @09:53AM (#17012690)

There's a bunch fo websites (Atlantic being notable) that tell me I'm using an ad-blocker and ask me to turn it off. I'm not. I'm using stock Firefox.

So, I guess their conversation goes:

> We block Firefox (but don't know that we do so)

> We don't see many Firefox users

> Why do we optimise for Firefox?

It's mildly frustrating that they block users for dumb reasons. (Again, I'm not blocking ads). But it's only a mild frustration - there are a gajillion places to get news that are better than Atlantic.

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Re:Is it worth supporting Firefox? by adrian1973 on Monday May 07, 2018 @10:29AM (#17012994)

They are probably detecting that some ad/tracking cookies are not being set... because by default in FF tracking protection is enabled.

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Re:Is it worth supporting Firefox? by Sylos on Monday May 07, 2018 @03:22PM (#17015645)

It's only enabled by default in Private Browsing. And it doesn't actively block cookies (they obviously do get cleared at the end of your Private Browsing session, though).

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