1629129 - I turn of 'Enhanced Tracking Protection' but still can't get to websites such as Alternet.org.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Privacy: Anti-Tracking, defect, P3)

Description

[aurallyfixt]

Attachment: Alternet.org.html

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:75.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/75.0

Steps to reproduce:

I open a website and get a message that I need to turn off my tracking protection in order to show the page. I turn off the tracking protection to the left of the lock in the address line, because I trust the page. I retry to open the page, but still get the same message (even though the Enhanced Tracking Protection is off.

Actual results:

I opened Alternet.org and got a message saying that if I disable AdBlocker for Alternet I can then visit the site for free. It gives me instructions of how to do that (by clicking on the Tracking Protection button. I do that, and it indicates that Enhanced Tracking Protection is off for the Alternet.org website. But, I still get the same message and am blocked from getting into the Alternet.org site. This has also happened with other web sites.

Expected results:

Once I turn off Tracking Protection for a site I trust (allowing them to advertise), shouldn't I be able to get into the site?

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Resetting severity to default of --.

Comment 3

[Steven Englehardt [:englehardt]]

I'm not able to reproduce.

• Are you sure tracking protection is disabled? You should see that the shield icon in the URL bar is crossed out.
• Do you have any privacy/ad blocking extensions installed? You can try restarting in safe mode and seeing if you can reproduce the issue. See: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode.

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Because this bug's Severity has not been changed from the default since it was filed, and it's Priority is -- (Backlog,) indicating it has has not been previously triaged, the bug's Severity is being updated to -- (default, untriaged.)

Comment 5

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Clear a needinfo that is pending on an inactive user.

Inactive users most likely will not respond; if the missing information is essential and cannot be collected another way, the bug maybe should be closed as INCOMPLETE.

For more information, please visit auto_nag documentation.

Comment 6

[Dan Mehic]

Verified with Firefox Nightly 133.0a1. No tracking protection warning is visible, website loads as expected with ETP Strict.