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Re:Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center by metalliqaz on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @10:14AM (#21323793)
> The downside of all of this is that I feel like sites are now intentionally being designed to break if this kind of stuff is blocked.

That's fine by me. It's an up-front indication that I don't want to use that service. In the case of bill pay, I would just change my user agent string.

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Re:Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center by johnisgood on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @10:58AM (#21324321)
You are working around the problem, but the underlying issue is still there, which is not fine. I do not consider those practices fine just because I may have found a workaround. :/
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Re:Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center by dmortin on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @10:24AM (#21323903)
> In the case of bill pay, I would just change my user agent string.

He also mentioned "others would let me log in but then immediately tell me I had been logged out". If they implement logging in with some tracking cookies, then changing your agent won't help.

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