Facebook degrading Firefox user experience now?
Facebook degrading Firefox user experience now?
Recently, most images on Facebook have stopped loading for me. Sometimes it's just a few images. Other times it's almost all images. The longer I scroll, the worse it gets. Today, I couldn't even see my own pictures. Are any other Firefox users having this problem, or maybe it's a server issue on Facebook's end?
I wouldn't worry about it too much. The Facebook experience is degrading for all users.
I imagine they'd rather you use their mobile apps than navigate to the website via a browser. They can collect more data on you that way.
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Actually I like my facebook experience. I just mostly do not use Facebook anymore. I agree though, when I do go on it is nuts.
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When opening the developer tools and going to the Network tab, are there errors? (refresh the page to be sure everything appears in the tab)Yes, there are errors related to fbcdn.net, which I guess is facebook's content delivery network.
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What type of error is it? Time-out, blocked, ... ?
I keep telling everyone that they're ruining the internet by using and supporting chrome instead of Firefox. I keep telling them that Firefox user experience is at par with or better than Chrome's. But then I realize that I don't use FB, Google (besides occasional searches) or any of the similar suspects. Bad experience on Firefox seems to be uniquely tied to these bad actors, perhaps because it isn't as easy to track users on it (with the help of plugins like uBO). People really need to de-addict themselves from these spyware services and software. Or we are all doomed.
@TheBaldness whatever service is degrading for me and have an alternative to is a service that I have an incentive to stop using. Friendica is so much better than Facebook. I never expected I would use it the way I use it today.
I don't use Facebook. Unfortunately, my neighbors use it to communicate. That's the only reason I have it. I've also used the marketplace, but prefer Craigslist.
@TheBaldness I just have it because I've used it for so long and not everyone is on other platforms. Or if they are, they're still Meta owned anyway. But since I've been on the Fediverse, I found myself using it less and less.
Okay, you got me curious about Friendica. Do you know how it works? Like, is your data always kept on your server, or is it more of a Fediverse model, where your data is replicated across all your friend's servers as well?
@TheBaldness it's an ActivityPub alternative to Facebook, kinda. Just like Lemmy is for Reddit or Mastodon is for Twitter.
You do have more privacy options, though, like, you can create a post and only allow visibility from a person or a group of people (let's say people that follow you but you also follow back, lists of people etc.)
There are other alternatives using different protocols, such as Diaspora (where the ownership is different, as in, if you create a post, all the comments below it belong to you as well, I don't know how this works), or Hubzilla which uses AP to communicate with other networks, but uses a protocol called Zot internally.
Using Facebook on a mobile browser is horrible: the scrolling snaps all over the place. They're awful, which is why i won't have any Meta software on my phone.