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pbzm··on X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled
Firefox partitions (and soon blocks) 3rd party cookies by default. That means they can't be used for cross-site tracking. Also not across different top level sites belonging to Twitter / X. The entity configuration for ETP does not change anything here.

The bug we fixed was in ETP, an older mechanism in Firefox, which blocks cookie access for known trackers, based on a list. Only for that mechanism we consider a hand full of domains by Twitter / X to be the same party. This is so we e.g. don't block their CDN if you're on x.com. We still block them on sites not belonging to Twitter / X. This is especially relevant for ETP strict which does not only block cookie and storage access, but also blocks 3rd party loads from known trackers altogether. If we block Twitter's CDN on x.com the site breaks.

pbzm··on X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled
We've fixed this issue on the Firefox side ~2 months ago. Here is the bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1897379

It's possible that you have an extension installed that blocks e.g. Twitter's CDN. We've seen issues like that with the Disconnect Firefox extension.

pbzm··on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users
Could you please file a bug and provide steps to reproduce the issue? I'm happy to take a look. You can file it here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Core&comp...
pbzm··on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users
That's not ideal! Could you please file a bug and provide steps to reproduce the issue? I'm happy to take a look. You can file it here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Core&comp...