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Browser extensions to help report site compatibilty issues.
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Suggest users to do additional tests for busted sites (by privacy enablers) #25

Open adamopenweb opened 7 years ago

adamopenweb commented 7 years ago

Idea from Brad re:tracking protection. 

blassey> if we had a UI for "this site is busted" the first thing might be "hey, try it now"

Suggest ways to get around busted sites. Disable tracking protection, ad-blockers/add-ons. For sites which block or severely hurt the user experience, give a more apparent notification to the user.

karlcow commented 7 years ago

More actions from the users is always hard to trigger. Maybe a first step to help users and webcompat at the same time is to have in the bug reporting system a way to

  1. show the users that tracking protection is on (with a very short explanation that it might why the site is not working properly)
  2. send a flag in the bug report that it is on (so we know when testing a bit more of the context).

Issue: Is tracking protection prefs detectable by an addon?

karlcow commented 7 years ago

Issue 2: is it privacy invasive to report that TP is on.

miketaylr commented 7 years ago

Issue: Is tracking protection prefs detectable by an addon?

For non-WebExtensions add-ons, yeah. Not sure about Web Extensions.

adamopenweb commented 7 years ago

Looks like no for web extensions. https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/FAQ#Will_I_have_access_to_about:config_or_the_preferences.3F