The firewall at my work is so weird. It does something funky with how it accepts cookies that leads to unpredictable behavior across different sites. I know its the firewall and not the browser because I experience the same issue with Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. I know enough to configure the settings on each browser but nothing does the trick.
Here are some of the problems I’ve come across with some hoops I have to jump:
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WordPress.com: will log me in but will tell me that I’m not logged in. I can’t access my reader or dashboard. Occasionally it will give me setting before realizing what it did and then lock me out. If I go to someone else’s page though, it have my header bar at the top and it will allow to follow someone.
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Blogger: will not let me log in if I go straight to the blogger website. If I log into my gmail first though, and then click on Blogger from the menu at the top, then I get in no problem.
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Tumblr: completely blocked.
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LinkedIn: cannot log in or access anything.
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Facebook: will tell me it was unable to log me in, but then I can access limited uses if I jump directly to a page.*
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Twitter: no issue unless I need to allow a third party permission and then that’s 50/50.**
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Hootsuite: cannot log in.
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Amazon.com: will let me log in, but have to input password often because it forgets that I’m logged in.
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Pinterest: will technically log me in (I can see my avatar) and I can see pins, but I cannot like or pin anything.
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New York Times: I cannot read a single article from them.
*I rarely, if ever use Facebook at work.
**I always use twitter at work. I like to justify it by saying I follow business/psychology related accounts.
Firewalls suck. There.