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Firefox Tracking Protection and cashback sites

faddy
faddy Posts: 508 Forumite
A couple of my recent Topcashback purchases haven't tracked. I think they were the first that I've made since starting to use Firefox Quantum. Does Firefox's Tracking Protection prevent purchases tracking in the same way that Adblock does (so I should have turned it off for TCB)?

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  • Neil_Jones
    Neil_Jones Posts: 9,791 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    The cashback sites can only track your visit to websites by the use of cookies, which the likes of Tracking Protecion (and Private Browsing) can block this. That and the use of Ad-Block in general can also interfere with these websites.
  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    An easy way round this is to have a separate browser profile for getting cashback.

    Run the command "firefox -p" to open the profile manager and enable multiple profiles.
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