Bug 1514054 Comment 4 Edit History

Note: The actual edited comment in the bug view page will always show the original commenter’s name and original timestamp.

(In reply to :Ehsan Akhgari from comment #2)
> Hi Tim,
> 
> I'm sorry content blocking is causing issues.  I'd like to try to help
> improve things.  But I need to ask your help in understanding more details
> about what is going on behind the scenes.  I work on the anti-tracking
> backend these days, and from where I stand I don't know much about
> livemarks, web extensions, and this specific issue.  So far, all I have been
> able to capture from this bug report is "content blocking causes some URLs
> to not load somehow, probably when some extension is installed...", barely
> enough information to be able to tell what's going on.
> 
> May I ask for some information that would allow me to look into this in more
> detail?

This is the code that tries to fetch the feed: https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/blob/master/shared/feed-parser.js#L5-L24

> 
> For starters, can you please open the browser console (or web console if
> this issue happens in a web page) and reproduce the bug, and then paste what
> appears in the console here?  I assume you should see messages with
> "https://www.reddit.com/.rss" in them...

> Also can you please tell me what content blocking settings you were testing
> with?  And do you mind using the "Standard" Content Blocking mode and see if
> the bug reproduces itself or not?

It seems to break with the "Strict" mode it seems.

> BTW, do you know what the all_urls permission in web extensions gets mapped
> to inside Gecko by any chance?

What Shane said, all_urls doesn't allow bypassing TP.
(In reply to :Ehsan Akhgari from comment #2)
> Hi Tim,
> 
> I'm sorry content blocking is causing issues.  I'd like to try to help
> improve things.  But I need to ask your help in understanding more details
> about what is going on behind the scenes.  I work on the anti-tracking
> backend these days, and from where I stand I don't know much about
> livemarks, web extensions, and this specific issue.  So far, all I have been
> able to capture from this bug report is "content blocking causes some URLs
> to not load somehow, probably when some extension is installed...", barely
> enough information to be able to tell what's going on.
> 
> May I ask for some information that would allow me to look into this in more
> detail?

This is the code that tries to fetch the feed: https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/blob/master/shared/feed-parser.js#L5-L24

> 
> For starters, can you please open the browser console (or web console if
> this issue happens in a web page) and reproduce the bug, and then paste what
> appears in the console here?  I assume you should see messages with
> "https://www.reddit.com/.rss" in them...

"The resource at “https://www.reddit.com/.rss” was blocked because content blocking is enabled."

> Also can you please tell me what content blocking settings you were testing
> with?  And do you mind using the "Standard" Content Blocking mode and see if
> the bug reproduces itself or not?

It seems to break with the "Strict" mode it seems.

> BTW, do you know what the all_urls permission in web extensions gets mapped
> to inside Gecko by any chance?

What Shane said, all_urls doesn't allow bypassing TP.

Back to Bug 1514054 Comment 4