Strict Content Blocking prevents Facebook comments from loading on Politico.com
Categories
(Web Compatibility :: Desktop, defect, P3)
Tracking
(firefox67 affected, firefox68 affected, firefox87 affected)
People
(Reporter: cpeterson, Unassigned)
References
(Blocks 1 open bug)
Details
(Keywords: webcompat:needs-diagnosis, Whiteboard: [tp-yellowlist-active][tp-shim-content][tp-embedded-media])
STR:
- Select "Strict" Content Blocking in about:preferences#privacy
- Visit https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/04/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-new-york-226578
- Click the "Comment" button in the left sidebar to scroll down to the "SHOW COMMENTS" button at the bottom of the article.
- Click the "SHOW COMMENTS" button.
Expected result:
Facebook comments should load.
Actual result:
Nothing happens when you click the "SHOW COMMENTS" button. Facebook comments do not load.
If you switch to "Standard" Content Blocking in about:preferences#privacy and reload the Politico.com page, then the Facebook comments will load as expected.
Affected version:
63.0a1 (2018-08-21) (64-bit) (build id: 20180821100053)
Comment 1•5 years ago
|
||
This basically means FB comments are broken with tracking protection which is a known issue. Linking this bug to two of the other examples.
Comment 2•5 years ago
|
||
While testing this I discovered that there is in fact cookie restrictions related breakage, just not what is described in Comment 0. I filed Bug 1545273 for that.
Updated•5 years ago
|
Updated•5 years ago
|
Comment 3•5 years ago
|
||
The technique in bug is helping here, but they load Facebook's SDK indirectly by loading https://s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js
. As such, I have to whitelist that before the shim even kicks in, but then it works. One further complication is that they hide the comments by default behind a "show comments" button, so the user will have to click that, and then any placeholder we provide, before we would show the comments.
So this really seems to be a case where we need to handle AddThis, not just the FB comments.
Updated•5 years ago
|
Updated•4 years ago
|
Comment 4•4 years ago
|
||
The issue is still reproducible with ETP - Strict.
https://prnt.sc/xthj4g
Tested with:
Browser / Version: Firefox Nightly 87.0a1 (2021-01-29)
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro
Comment 5•4 years ago
|
||
If embedded Facebook contents require cookies from twitter.com (third party cookie) to embed contents, this is the right behavior.
Description
•