I would very much like to upgrade to Flickr Pro but how can anyone trust this page?

Used their contact form to ask them about this, including this screenshot with a couple of notes.

I had to select the 'Submit' button twice to send the message.

@simonwoods yeh, doesn’t fill one with confidence...got to get the basics right, specially on a payment page!

@matpacker Get this; it was because I had tracking protection switched on for Firefox.

So the only way Flickr's payment processing page works is if you allow the code that Mozilla includes for blocking in its tracking protection. 🤔

@simonwoods I wonder if there really was a tracking stuff in there, or if it was a false positive? I haven’t dug in into how they do it (a blacklist, or a hueristic, or…), but I know from my time doing annoyance blocking, false positives are easy to create.

I’ve had to disable it once recently so my dad could get help from his broker’s website…so now, in addition to cookies and referrers and everything else from before, it’s a new thing to remember to toggle off when sites mysteriously don’t work… (I’m totally for the idea of blocking trackers, just frustrated being on the “why doesn’t this thing work!?!” side of it, too.)

@smokey I probably should have copied the log from Firefox when I had Tracking Prevention enabled but it was catching something that Digital River uses.

IDK. I re-upped my Pinboard subscription and, believe it or not, it was a simple and seemingly secure page without any bloat attached. A miracle these days, I know.

@simonwoods Same here on Pinboard. It was the easiest renewal ever. And well worth every cent.

@bradenslen Maciej sure knows how to run a good web service that does this weird thing of respecting customers. He's also a pretty good writer.