Since people having issues with this seem to be finding this thread, it may be a good place to document how to change the windows setting in order to disable this feature.
I am not an expert, but would it be correct saying that if parental controls are disabled on Windows then firefox will ignore prefer:safe? 2014-10-08 8:43 GMT+13:00 Bil Corry <[email protected]>: > I just ran into this - my son was trying to watch a Minecraft-related > Youtube video and because Firefox sends the Prefer:Safe header, YouTube > wouldn't let him watch it. So I installed Chrome and now he doesn't have > any issues with content being blocked. Interesting that Chrome doesn't > support it, but YouTube does. Seems that Google found the sweet spot. > > Good luck with the feature. > > > - Bil > > -----Original Message----- > From: dev-privacy [mailto:dev-privacy-bounces+bil.corry= > [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2014 8:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Prefer:Safe in Firefox > > Please see this question I posted on the support forums: > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1023771 > > This is a very heavy-handed approach you're taking with this. I do not > want to filter what my kids see on the web. The only reason I have > parental controls enabled is to enforce time limits on the computer use. > > The only options I have to get around this are to either disable parental > controls (unacceptable), or to tell them to use Google Chrome, which does > not exhibit this behavior. > > I don't mind that you're adding this feature. But you either need to put > something in so that it can be disabled, or only make it take effect if any > web content restrictions are applied. If there are no content > restrictions, do not send the header. > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-privacy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-privacy > _______________________________________________ dev-privacy mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-privacy
