Firefox's tracking protection can interfere with feed requests

[mafro1]

Icon for livemarks shows up for reddit.com homepage but live feed preview displays nothing and it doesn't pull anything into the bookmark. (site url or feed). I originally imported this using the firefox generated opml file then deleted and manually tried to add https://www.reddit.com/.rss

any suggestions?

[eikaramba]

same here for e.g. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/.rss?sort=new

[eikaramba]

the issue is because of "tracking protection" feature in FF. i disabled it and now it works. need more debugging to see how to get around this without disabling the whole feature

Update: strangely enough it still works after enabling the tracking protection again.

[evilpie]

We need to find some way to solve this problem. I think one solution that got suggested would be to explicit request permissions for those URLs, because explicit host permissions unlike <all_urls> actually trumps tracking protection.

[nt1m]

@evilpie Maybe we could add a notification when a feed failed to fetch ? With an indication that tracking protection might be behind the problem

[nt1m]

Filed a bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1514054

[nt1m]

It seems like we can start prompting optional permissions for the hosts we want to bypass tracking protection from.

[nt1m]

I'm working on a way to work around this.

[belegdol]

How do I whitelist Reddit so that the extension works? I clicked the shield icon while on the subreddit in question and selected Turn off Blocking for This Site, but the RSS feed still does not load.

[nt1m]

Black Menu for Google opens up an extension page that allows you to unblock content blocking. Maybe that can be used here:

[nt1m]

[evilpie]

This should now finally be fixed in Firefox 77 by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1629436.

[nt1m]

@evilpie Thanks for following and updating the issue!