How to fix broken images in dreamwidth (and other places)

[sonia]

I've been seeing a lot of broken images (not displaying at all) here on dreamwidth. Some images display fine. I kind of figured it was an access problem, or an image size problem.

I finally tracked it down on this post of asakiyume's, Casual Resemblances, which she kindly informed me has embedded Twitter images. I confirmed that I could view it fine on Safari, but the images didn't show up on Firefox even with all 4 (!) of my ad-block and privacy plugins disabled.

From this Firefox support post I learned that Firefox's built-in Tracking Protection is causing the problem. From that second linked post I learned that I can disable it per-site by clicking on the shield at the far left of the address bar. Kinda tedious to do that every time I want to see an image, but better than being left in the dark.

Comments

[asakiyume]

The trade-off between privacy/security on the one hand and open access on the other is very headache inducing. Some sites are just awful with tracking--things like Twitter and Facebook, I'm guessing! And Firefox is wise to protect you from it. But it makes it hard when people are using those sites.

(I promise I will NOT generally link from such sites!)

[sonia]

No worries about your linking! I appreciate that it helped me figure out what was going on.

More helpful on Firefox's part would have been "This image blocked to prevent tracking. Unblock?" rather than just leaving me puzzled.

[jesse_the_k]

Cool to know!

I'm toggling between Safari (fast) and Brave (Chromium performance and extensions) FF seems to use twice the battery as those other browsers. But then I use Firefox for navigating FB and Twitter because the blockers are high quality.

Yikes! Can you imagine having to own three kinds of landlines to manage our privacy?

[sonia]

Hm, trying out Brave. Thanks for the tip! I have been using Firefox for many years, but it keeps getting slower and more unwieldy.