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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


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jokoon04/02/2025

> 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.

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