Google Search results not working when cookies disabled
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(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)
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(Reporter: chris.j.cameron, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:81.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0
Steps to reproduce:
With cookies policy set to block "cross-site and social media trackers" and a newly downloaded mozilla.org install.
- Enter "bad squid" on google.com.
- Open several of the results links in new tabs. They tabs will display addresses like https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjk2_6ShJDsAhUMB50JHUL3AQsQFjAAegQIAxAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbadsquiddogames.com%2F&usg=AOvVaw1KP0ErvKrQzNJ4_HRgMyA1
Actual results:
I get a tab with no content loaded that just times out.
In the originating page, I see a console error:
Cookie “SIDCC” will be soon rejected because it has the “SameSite” attribute set to “None” or an invalid value, without the “secure” attribute. To know more about the “SameSite“ attribute, read https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Set-Cookie/SameSite
This may be related to the long closed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725634, which was resolved 9 years ago by a change on google's end.
Expected results:
It is expected that the linked page will load.
The results will load if all cookies are allowed or if Enhanced Tracking protection is turned off for google.com. Firefox reports that "no trackers known to firefox were detected on this page".
Interestingly enough, it will also load if the &ved=2ah.... .....AxAB argument is deleted.
In Chrome, this works with cookies completely disabled (but google also does not mangle the names in the results, e.g. the first result actually links to directly to https://badsquiddogames.com/ instead of the link above.
This looks a lot like google breaking Firefox and is probably a google issue but this behavior warranted a bug report last time.
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Updated•5 years ago
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Comment 1•5 years ago
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Baku, how is the right person to contact here?
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Comment 2•5 years ago
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I'm unable to reproduce this issue. Dimi, are you able to reproduce it?
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Comment 3•5 years ago
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@Andrea: I am not longer able to reproduce this issue . I do still see the google-mangled tracking url but now these links resolve and load instead of timing out. The issue was reliably reproducible on the day I reported it by toggling the cookie or enhanced tracking protection settings so I suspect it was a google issue and they have resolved it on their end.
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Comment 4•5 years ago
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I can't reproduce either. I'll resolve this to WORKSFORME.
chris, if you encounter this problem again, please re-open it, thanks!
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