Some vendors are just weird... I'm always getting blocked by Etsy with Firefox after the first navigation on their site. It shows me a puzzle to solve and then, after solving the puzzle correctly (read "Success"), redirects me to "You have been blocked". It works with Chrome-based browsers though, but that doesn't make me want to use the website at all.
While looking at a flight price on sas.dk I had to disable Firefox's built-in enhanced tracking protection.
It seems excessive to not allow at least a single query in this situation.
I had the same with a newspaper which I subscribe to. They shouldn't be tracking me, and don't show adverts to subscribers. In this case I wrote to their support person, who told me not to block the tracking.
Some vendors are just weird... I'm always getting blocked by Etsy with Firefox after the first navigation on their site. It shows me a puzzle to solve and then, after solving the puzzle correctly (read "Success"), redirects me to "You have been blocked". It works with Chrome-based browsers though, but that doesn't make me want to use the website at all.
No VPN, just good privacy settings in my case.
While looking at a flight price on sas.dk I had to disable Firefox's built-in enhanced tracking protection.
It seems excessive to not allow at least a single query in this situation.
I had the same with a newspaper which I subscribe to. They shouldn't be tracking me, and don't show adverts to subscribers. In this case I wrote to their support person, who told me not to block the tracking.
Do you have the "resist fingerprinting" setting enabled in Firefox? (You can check in about:config)
"privacy.resistFingerprinting" is "true", yes, and it'll stay that way. Why let me solve a puzzle just to block me afterwards anyway?
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> just good privacy settings in my case.
You are blocking the trackers and damaging the revenue model.
Nope, no VPN, making it all the stranger.