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Not opening digital version of Dutch newspaper #92

Open GoodWoody opened 6 years ago

GoodWoody commented 6 years ago

Browser: firefox ESR 52.9.0 (64-bit) Privacy Possum: 2018.07.28

Website: https://krant.volkskrant.nl/titles/volkskrant/7929

When I click the newspaper image it should open and allow me to browse. However, with PP enabled it doesn't open. When PP disable for this site, it works as expected. Firefox is running on Debian 9 (Stretch) system. Ubuntu 18.04 with Firefox Quantum shows the same behaviour. Only works with PP disabled.

Hope it makes any sense. If more info is needed, don't hesitate to let me know.

Regards, Reinier van Houten The Netherlands

cowlicks commented 6 years ago

Hello @GoodWoody thank you for your bug report.

I'm investigating this. It seems to be related to stripping referer headers. I'm seeing an error about Access-Control-Allow-Origin header.

I have a Pull Request on the backburner that I think would fix this (#76). I'll revist it this weekend.

That PR would whitelists hosts that the user has interacted with by essentially making them first party on the given tab. This would prevent the referer header from being stripped.