I doubt thar Icecat-102.9.0 from Fedora repos provides the "Privacy Redirect" addon because i removed it some time ago; probably, it's a refuse from older Icecat releases. On 22/04/23 00:09, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Hi Jeremie, > > Jeremie King writes: > >> Version 102.9.0esr (64-bit) >> Clean install from Fedora 37 repos >> >> Problem: Twitter is redirecting to inappropriate websites. It looks >> like maybe there was something that would redirect users to nitter >> (why would that be appropriate anyway, the browser should not be >> interfering with my choice of URL) and maybe the old link doesn't work >> anymore? It looks like it's one of those parked URLs that transfers to >> multiple domains for ad revenue. > > This behavior is caused by the "Privacy Redirect" addon, which is > bundled with IceCat but can be easily disabled by visiting the > page. It includes a built-in list of Nitter instances to > redirect to, here: > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git/tree/data/extensions/%7bb7f9d2cd-d772-4302-8c3f-eb941af36f76%7d/assets/javascripts/remove-twitter-sw.js > > Perhaps that list is now out-of-date and includes some URLs that are no > longer running Nitter. > >> How disappointing! I would love to switch from firefox to ice >> cat... but this is nefarious behavior! > > I'm sorry that you consider it nefarious. I can understand why you feel > that way, but here's another point of view: it has become very common > for news articles and other web pages to include embedded tweets. When > you visit one of those pages with most web browsers, Twitter finds out > that you visited that page and gets to run its own Javascript code on > your web browser regardless of your wishes. If you block that > Javascript code from running, you simply don't see the embedded tweets, > which may make it hard to understand the article you're trying to read. > Ditto for YouTube and Instagram and others. > > Privacy Redirect is a tool to help address this issue. > > If you disagree that Privacy Redirect should be included with IceCat, > feel free to start a discussion about it on our mailing lists. > gnuzilla-dev might be a good choice for such a discussion. > > For the record, I was not actually the person who decided to add Privacy > Redirect as a bundled addon to IceCat, so I'm not heavily invested in > keeping it. I'm sympathetic to the reasons for including it, but I'm > also sympathetic to your position. If you raise the issue, I pledge to > listen with an open mind. I'd also like to hear from Rubèn, who added > this extension to IceCat in the first place. > > Regards, > Mark > > > -- --- Antonio Trande Fedora Project mailto: sagitter@fedoraproject.org GPG key: 0x40FDA7B70789A9CD GPG keys server: https://keyserver.dcc.sib.swiss/