> Keep in mind that blocking fingerprinting may cause some sites to break.
This represents the sad state of Internet we are all living through. I have noticed that when I turn on privacy settings on Firefox, some major websites are broken and rendered unusable. It seems that the Internet is rampant with tracking and privacy violation, and we consumers are passively accepting it, by and large.
In some cases it is because Firefox's tracking protection is based off of a curated list of websites [1]. This breaks a site I built called reVddit [2].
In my uneducated opinion, this list is weird. I had some discussion about this with Mozilla devs [3]. In that message chain, devs acknowledged reVddit is not doing anything wrong, rather it is reddit who could infringe users' privacy. Yet it is the non-infringing site that is rendered broken.
Further, the devs' suggestions for remedy are not workable. They propose moving requests to the server so that reVddit.com makes the requests to reddit.com. There are multiple problems with this,
* It would hide more code from users
* Reddit rate-limits requests coming from a single source
* Infrastructure becomes expensive on what is supposed to be a low cost website
My conversation with devs was good but needs more. I don't understand their point and they do not seem to understand mine.
[1] https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect-tracking-protecti...
[3] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.privacy/XO84Ezrw...