I m having real problems finding a browse that just works. I have Brave,
Edge and Google Chrome, some may be based on others of course.

Brave has been brilliant for some time but yesterday it displayed Facebook
in a really weird way so I switched to edge. Later in the day I tried
Brave again and it was back to normal.

I am trying to track one of the WD SSDs I returned under warranty and none
of these browsers want to play with the Royal Mail tracking service. I
have switched browsers, switched machines, nothing, then suddenly one of
them springs to life (could be a Royal Mail problem).

What is great fun is the SSD left the UK on 16 Jan, was reported as being
with customs in the Czech Republic on 20 Jan, released from customs on 28
Jan, leaving UK on 29 Jan and received in the Czech Republic on 2 Feb. All
for less than £10!

--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
There's 2 typos of peoples in this world.
Those who always notice spelling & grammatical errors, & them who doesn't.

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On 03/02/2025 13:52, Andy Burns wrote:

Jeff Gaines wrote:

I'm having real problems finding a browse that just works. I have
Brave, Edge and Google Chrome, some may be based on others of course.

I've been looking at Zen, which is Firefox with a different GUI, I
haven't made it my default yet, but it may be worth a look?

<https://zen-browser.app>

Brave works for me on Android, Win10, Linux (assorted). Don't forget you
may need to disable Brave Shields on a per website basis to make extra
shitty websites work with all their Javascript pish.

If you can't make it work with Brave and its anti-tracking features then
the website is specifically wanting Google Chrome and or Edge and is
therefore complete shite by definition and should be avoided.

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"Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> writes:

I am trying to track one of the WD SSDs I returned under warranty and
none of these browsers want to play with the Royal Mail tracking
service. I have switched browsers, switched machines, nothing, then
suddenly one of them springs to life (could be a Royal Mail problem).

I'm certain it's a Royal Mail problem. I've had issues tracking parcels: clicking on the button after entering the tracking ID seems to do
nothing, most of the time. However, sometimes it does work, seemingly
at random.

This on Linux with a clean fresh configuration of Firefox, also with
Google Chrome.

--
Alan J. Wylie https://www.wylie.me.uk/ mailto:<alan@wylie.me.uk>

Dance like no-one's watching. / Encrypt like everyone is.
Security is inversely proportional to convenience

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On 03/02/2025 17:44, Alan J. Wylie wrote:

This on Linux with a clean fresh configuration of Firefox, also with
Google Chrome.

I never got firefox on linux to work with Barclays bank.

same browser on other platforms worked ok
If you have a windoze VM try from there
--
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as
foolish, and by the rulers as useful.

(Seneca the Younger, 65 AD)

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The Natural Philosopher wrote:

I never got firefox on linux to work with Barclays bank.

Just fired up firefox in ubuntu in windows (fonts are a bit small and
scratchy that way) but logged straight in and got account balances ok.

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Jeff Gaines wrote:

I'm having real problems finding a browse that just works. I have Brave,
Edge and Google Chrome, some may be based on others of course.

I've been looking at Zen, which is Firefox with a different GUI, I
haven't made it my default yet, but it may be worth a look?

<https://zen-browser.app>

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On 03/02/2025 17:44, Alan J. Wylie wrote:

I'm certain it's a Royal Mail problem. I've had issues tracking parcels: clicking on the button after entering the tracking ID seems to do
nothing, most of the time. However, sometimes it does work, seemingly
at random.

I'm seeing the same, using Firefox..

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On 03/02/2025 in message <RCn*8-e6z@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> Theo wrote:

I get the same, but usually the RM tracking appears after a few seconds. >Unlike most courier tracking, which put up a message saying 'we're getting >the details for you, please wait', the RM site just looks like there's no >tracking information until it suddenly appears. If there's a problem with >the tracking database, sometimes it sits there doing nothing for a long >while.

If you want a second opinion, https://parcelsapp.com/ can show RM tracking.

Thank you Theo, that worked after a bit of tickling :-)

It tells me "The consignment was sent back to the sender - refused
acceptance by the addressee." All good fun since I enclosed a copy of the
RMA. I am in touch with WD by email, they reply by return but seem to have
no idea why it was rejected. They have asked I contact them when it
arrives back and they will come up with an alternative.

There's already one more on its way with a potential six to follow all
bought around he same time. Just a toss up if they expire before the
warranty!

--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
Indecision is the key to flexibility

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Alan J. Wylie wrote:

I'm certain it's a Royal Mail problem.

I wondered why everyone was having problems with royalmail vs firefox,
when I don't remember having issues, so I tried tracking an old parcel
from last year, and got no response to the [track] button on their form.

I tried it in Zen (which is re-skinned firefox) and it worked straight away.

So I went back to firefox, tried turning off combinations of Enhanced
Tracking Protection, Ghostery and AdBlock, enabling service workers,
clearing cookies and site-specific settings, force reloading the page
with ctrl-F5

The closest I got is that it seems to be related to the permission for extracting data from canvas elements, which is usually a fingerprinting technique.

Anyone else's console log showing this?

Blocked third party
https://newassets.hcaptcha.com/captcha/v1/blah

I'm bored of testing combinations now, so fuck 'em!

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Andy Burns wrote:

I'm bored of testing combinations now

I think there's an element of "denial of service prevention gone wrong".
The less often you try, the more likely it is to work ...

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On 03/02/2025 17:44, Alan J. Wylie wrote:

"Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> writes:

I am trying to track one of the WD SSDs I returned under warranty and
none of these browsers want to play with the Royal Mail tracking
service. I have switched browsers, switched machines, nothing, then
suddenly one of them springs to life (could be a Royal Mail problem).

I'm certain it's a Royal Mail problem. I've had issues tracking parcels: clicking on the button after entering the tracking ID seems to do
nothing, most of the time. However, sometimes it does work, seemingly
at random.

I've had that with Edge, so I had to track it on a phone with Chrome.

--
Max Demian

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On 04/02/2025 11:41, Andy Burns wrote:

Alan J. Wylie wrote:

I'm certain it's a Royal Mail problem.

I wondered why everyone was having problems with royalmail vs firefox, when
I don't remember having issues, so I tried tracking an old parcel from last year, and got no response to the [track] button on their form.

I tried it in Zen (which is re-skinned firefox) and it worked straight away.

So I went back to firefox, tried turning off combinations of Enhanced Tracking Protection, Ghostery and AdBlock, enabling service workers,
clearing cookies and site-specific settings, force reloading the page with ctrl-F5

The closest I got is that it seems to be related to the permission for extracting data from canvas elements, which is usually a fingerprinting technique.

Anyone else's console log showing this?

    Blocked third party
    https://newassets.hcaptcha.com/captcha/v1/blah

I'm bored of testing combinations now, so fuck 'em!

For Firefox I get:
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://api-web.royalmail.com/mailpieces/v3/<parcel_id>/events. (Reason:
CORS request did not succeed). Status code: (null)

Trying the API url gives: The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.

Edge doesn't complain about CORS, but still seems to fail on the API.

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On 04/02/2025 13:46, Nick Finnigan wrote:

For Firefox I get:
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading
the remote resource at https://api-web.royalmail.com/mailpieces/v3/<parcel_id>/events. (Reason:
CORS request did not succeed). Status code: (null)

Firefox gets quite shirty about CORS. It depends on how its set up - the defaults are quite strict

 Trying the API url gives: The page you are trying to view cannot be
shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.

Possibly the https authentication has expired.

 Edge doesn't complain about CORS, but still seems to fail on the API.

using HTTPS and then letting the auth records expire is that mark of
total cunts.

--
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will
eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such
time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic
and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally
important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for
the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the
truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

Joseph Goebbels

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