Over 96% of Apple Users Have Blocked Facebook from Tracking Them

Re:Over 96% of Apple Users Have Blocked Facebook from Tracki... by smoe on Saturday May 08, 2021 @09:18AM (#27086869)

I think as a front end dev it is important to have blockers installed and toggle them during development/testing to make sure you don’t break something unintentionally either way.

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Re:Over 96% of Apple Users Have Blocked Facebook from Tracki... by macNchz on Saturday May 08, 2021 @09:39AM (#27087017)

Yeah a surprising number of sites tie their checkout navigation to callbacks on trackers, making critical things like the “Complete Checkout” button just straight up not work when the trackers are blocked...or just down for whatever reason.

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Re:Over 96% of Apple Users Have Blocked Facebook from Tracki... by throw0101a on Saturday May 08, 2021 @11:28AM (#27087997)

> Yeah a surprising number of sites

A surprising number of sites have basic functionality, like showing content, not work if you have cookies turned off.

There are some shopping sites that don't even let you view items with cookies disabled: I understand needing them for purchases, but even Amazon allows for browsing without cookies.

Don't get em started on turning off JavaScript.

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Re:Over 96% of Apple Users Have Blocked Facebook from Tracki... by lobocinza on Saturday May 08, 2021 @02:58PM (#27089785)

Thankfully some paywalls also don't work.

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Re:Over 96% of Apple Users Have Blocked Facebook from Tracki... by pluc on Saturday May 08, 2021 @09:57AM (#27087159)

Sounds like a pretty efficient way to get you to turn off your adblocker

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Re:Over 96% of Apple Users Have Blocked Facebook from Tracki... by omegabravo on Saturday May 08, 2021 @10:07AM (#27087256)

or to not get a purchase, if I don't remember to turn off my adblocker I'll assume they have a bug and move on

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