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Facebook degrading Firefox user experience now? (beehaw.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, there are errors related to fbcdn.net, which I guess is facebook's content delivery network.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@TheBaldness
What type of error is it? Time-out, blocked, ... ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Both, plus failed connection something something...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Do you use a VPN? I've noticed a lot of cdn's have become very hostile to VPNs over the last year. Initially I blamed the VPN but I'm pretty convinced it's the cdn's at this point*.

*This is because I started using a private linode server as a tailscale exit node and boy does the internet hate that IP with a passion. Toggling between using that and my home computer as exit nodes is somewhat fascinating. The web is so rude when I browse from my linode box. So... now I use the linode exit node to let the jerks take themselves to the curb. Anyway images not loading randomly is one of the telltale signs of a jerk website. It even happens when using Google One VPN or Cloudflair's WARP+ nowadays. Switch them off and use my residential IP exit node and presto it all works again.