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"This website may not work with a VPN." Banner - even though I'm not using a VPN!

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jbr replied
m.fessler1
m.fessler1

Hello everyone,

For the past few days, I've been seeing the following banner below the address bar on ardmediathek.de :

This website may not work with a VPN. Try signing in or turning VPN off while you use this website.

At first, I assumed this was some kind of anti-VPN or geo-blocking script from the media library itself. However, according to transvision.flod.org it appears to be related to Firefox's ipp-activator-breakage-sign-in-warning feature.

I don't have a VPN, proxy, or DoH enabled, and the VPN button isn't being displayed to me (yet) either. So why is IP Protection interfering here in the first place?

What I think of the ever-growing number of supposedly intelligent services that keep tinkering away in the background and seem to believe they need to take over users' tasks is probably better left unsaid. ;-)

Thanks in advance for any feedback!

Best regards, Martin

Hello everyone, For the past few days, I've been seeing the following banner below the address bar on [https://www.ardmediathek.de ardmediathek.de] : ''This website may not work with a VPN. Try signing in or turning VPN off while you use this website.'' At first, I assumed this was some kind of anti-VPN or geo-blocking script from the media library itself. However, according to [https://transvision.flod.org/?recherche=browser%2Fbrowser%2FipProtection.ftl%3Aipp-activator-breakage-sign-in-warning&repo=gecko_strings&sourcelocale=de&locale=en-US&search_type=entities&entire_string=entire_string transvision.flod.org] it appears to be related to Firefox's ipp-activator-breakage-sign-in-warning feature. I don't have a VPN, proxy, or DoH enabled, and the VPN button isn't being displayed to me (yet) either. So why is IP Protection interfering here in the first place? What I think of the ever-growing number of supposedly intelligent services that keep tinkering away in the background and seem to believe they need to take over users' tasks is probably better left unsaid. ;-) Thanks in advance for any feedback! Best regards, Martin

Okulungisiwe ngu m.fessler1

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jbr
jbr
  • Top 10 Contributor

Oh nice find verifying via transvision, hat tip!

This is unfortunately a defect https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2047438 that was implemented like this "as designed" but is hands down just… confusing:( It has internal reporter pushing for this so hopefully it will get reevaluated soon.

jbr
jbr
  • Top 10 Contributor

Martin, this has been resolved, and will ship within a few days — no confusing and intimidating messages for those not even using any of the features. Thanks for the report!

Buza umbuzo

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