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Comment by jokoon

2 days ago

I set firefox to clear cookies, also using cookies to "strict"

This somehow causes a huge pain to connect to mozilla's matrix instance, and I never understood why. This is a bit ironic since firefox has that feature to clear cookies.

I had to reset password, and do other weird things, I can't remember what exactly.

I hope this MAS thing fixes it.

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jeroenhd  1 day ago

Putting tracking protection to strict essentially makes Firefox violate certain web standards. Developers aren't going to test against that, and if they are they're probably not going to be able to do much about the problems strict tracking protection causes.

If MAS fixes this, it'll be by accident and it'll probably break in the future. Firefox warns against this kind of breakage if you enable strict tracking protection in the settings. You can't have strict tracking protection + websites doing cross-domain authentication working.

anon7000  2 days ago

I mean, yeah, tracking prevention features basically completely break cross-domain authentication. There are a surprising number of valid use cases that need cross-domain auth (or make the user experience a lot easier). While there are workarounds these days, sometimes it does require deep changes in how auth works

  • jokoon  2 days ago

    > There are a surprising number of valid use cases that need cross-domain auth

    I am not a web developer, but I would disagree with that.

    Either web standards respect privacy or they don't, but I would not sacrifice privacy for anything.

    Firefox was right to prevent tracking, it highlights how webstandards are just not good. I something doesn't work properly in a firefox private window, to me it should not exist.