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"Unknown Trackers" not blocked on most Firefox profiles #591

Closed yokoffing closed 4 years ago

yokoffing commented 4 years ago

Description

Ghostery for Firefox is not blocking some "unknown" trackers. I am not sure where to look or how to download logs from the Ghostery extension to determine why.

Only one of five of my Firefox builds detects and blocks the unknown trackers. Turning off Firefox's "Enhanced Tracking Protection" doesn't change behavior.

"Allow trackers created by site owners" is unchecked on all my Ghostery setups.

Toggling "Restrict Site" also does not change Ghostery's behavior.

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Expected Behavior

Example URL: https://github.com

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Both collector.githubapp.com and api.github.com are blocked on my Chromium-based browsers when I sign-in to Github and browse around the website. Yet these trackers are detected and modified on only one of my Firefox's profiles[!]. I cannot determine the reason.

Actual Behavior

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This behavior occurs on both my Windows 10 machine and my MacBook Pro. The other four Firefox profiles do not detect the trackers at all. I do not know how to determine the cause.

I've used Firefox's Web Console and have confirmed that Firefox is allowing these trackers to be processed.

@remusao @christophertino

yokoffing commented 4 years ago

UPDATE: After a few hours of tinkering, I repeated the steps @remusao gave me for #558 . This solved my issues with unknown trackers not appearing.

Issue #558 is incorporated into Ghostery 8.5.2, but the Firefox add-ons site still hasn't updated from 8.5.1.

I will check on this again when Firefox approves 8.5.2

yokoffing commented 4 years ago

Fixed with 8.5.2.