<story><title>Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/10/22/latest-firefox-brings-privacy-protections-front-and-center-letting-you-track-the-trackers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>floatboth</author><text>That particular example is just extremely odd because… well, the business model of the utilities whose bills you pay (nor the bank&amp;#x27;s) shouldn&amp;#x27;t be based on advertising?? Maybe it&amp;#x27;s just a pile of web development fail, using 3rd party cookies for no good reason..</text></item><item><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>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. I used to be able to use Firefox Focus (which has tracking protection built-in) to pay most of my bills. This was convenient because I would just open up the one site in FFF, pay the bill, and then close it, with all browsing history automatically deleted.&lt;p&gt;In the past month about 3 of my credit card sites stopped working on FFF, as well as my ISP&amp;#x27;s site. Some would flat out reject the agent (&amp;quot;Your browser is no longer supported&amp;quot;), others would let me log in but then immediately tell me I had been logged out or redirect back to the home page. So now I&amp;#x27;m forced to open them back up in regular Firefox, history and tracking included.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s one thing to say &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t use sites that exploit your data&amp;quot;, but it&amp;#x27;s not like the average person really has a choice when it comes to paying utility bills.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>autoexec</author><text>&amp;gt;  well, the business model of the utilities whose bills you pay (nor the bank&amp;#x27;s) shouldn&amp;#x27;t be based on advertising??&lt;p&gt;They shouldn&amp;#x27;t need it, but from their point of view why on earth wouldn&amp;#x27;t they sell their customers out at every opportunity if it means more money for them? Companies are amoral monsters who care about nothing but making money. If a company can do something that will make them more money you should expect them do it regardless of how ethical or legal it is.</text></comment>
<story><title>Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/10/22/latest-firefox-brings-privacy-protections-front-and-center-letting-you-track-the-trackers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>floatboth</author><text>That particular example is just extremely odd because… well, the business model of the utilities whose bills you pay (nor the bank&amp;#x27;s) shouldn&amp;#x27;t be based on advertising?? Maybe it&amp;#x27;s just a pile of web development fail, using 3rd party cookies for no good reason..</text></item><item><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>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. I used to be able to use Firefox Focus (which has tracking protection built-in) to pay most of my bills. This was convenient because I would just open up the one site in FFF, pay the bill, and then close it, with all browsing history automatically deleted.&lt;p&gt;In the past month about 3 of my credit card sites stopped working on FFF, as well as my ISP&amp;#x27;s site. Some would flat out reject the agent (&amp;quot;Your browser is no longer supported&amp;quot;), others would let me log in but then immediately tell me I had been logged out or redirect back to the home page. So now I&amp;#x27;m forced to open them back up in regular Firefox, history and tracking included.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s one thing to say &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t use sites that exploit your data&amp;quot;, but it&amp;#x27;s not like the average person really has a choice when it comes to paying utility bills.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gbear605</author><text>I’ve seen sites fail to load if google analytics doesn’t load, so that could be it.</text></comment>