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    SO many corporate/govt websites do this. My health insurance and credit card company do it. It’s mind boggling. I always keep some variation of Chromium installed to deal with it and then go back to LibreWolf.

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      I’ve not used LibreWolf, but assuming that Firefox addons are generally compatible, it might be worth trying Chrome Mask. It’s made by a Mozilla employee.

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    always give a bad rating and if possible create a support request. let them know.

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    I just downloaded firefox focus, and etsy wont let me log in with it because it has adblocking. even to track a shipment. They even stopped putting the tracking number in the shipment email so i cant go directly to usps. Im sick of being railroaded into giving up my privacy.

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      Chrome on Android = system App
      Why Chrome = more Tracking Tracking Tracking

      Its all about Tracking

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      2 months ago

      This is a native Android app from Canon (not a webpage) requiring to open Chrome instead of my default Firefox app.

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        2 months ago

        I understand, but if the application opens the browser you have to make it believe that it is opening Chrome

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          But you can’t make a native app think it is opening Chrome when it’s opening Firefox with just an extension. The extension only changes things inside the browser, but the Canon app probably checks the app ID of the browser it’s opening, which is done at the level of the Android system, and which is not affected by the extension.

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    That reminds me of PayPal. I can’t use my hardware sevurity key to log in on mobile… Unless I enable desktop mode in firefox. Then it works

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    Typically they have a dependency on something only one browser can do, and rather than using a polyfill or a better browser, force their bad technical decisions onto the user.

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      To be fair some things can’t be polyfilled, like the WebUSB API, as someone mentioned in the comments. But lots of the sites could fix their code so it works on Firefox, yeah.

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    Revolut business is the same. Somehow you must have chrome on mobile if you want to send a bank transfer from desktop. (It opens a qr code that when scanned, only works with Google Chrome and not any other chromium browser)

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    If it’s trying to talk to a device over Bluetooth or USB, it’s not supported in Firefox. Mozilla refuses to implement WebUSB because they think the danger of letting people accidentally flash malware onto a physical device outweighs the benefits.

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      Yeah this is the remote shooting app, for camera control, it’ll use Bluetooth to establish connection with the camera and then switch to WiFi for live view.