Comment by weare138
4 years ago
I seriously doubt this is intentional. It sounds like a bug. I use FF with privacy protection set to strict and a couple ad/tracking blocking plugins (uBlock Origin, DDG). I run into similar redirect bugs fairly often but the same sites will work with everything disabled. I'm leaning towards Waterfox and Pale Moon are enabling some security/privacy features by default that vanilla FF doesn't causing a redirect doom loop. If I understand OP's post correctly it doesn't seem like these browsers are receiving a message saying they were blocked but getting stuck on the page.
It's unintentional that it messes up so badly that you realize how pervasive and perverse it is. But its actual mechanism of action is entirely intentional.
It sounds like a bug.
Yeah, from subsequent posts (including by CF employees) it sounds like that is indeed that case. That's heartening to hear. It would have been rather disappointing to think that they are outright blocking "non mainstream" browsers or something.