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Blocked Content in Firefox

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leslieburcham2962
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Once a week, when I try to view my website named www.jignal.com, I receive the following error message: Sorry! Private browsing is blocking this content on your computer. This content can only be viewed if you turn off ad-blocking or exit private browsing. There are no ad-blocking plugins installed on my computer and I do not use private browsing. Can you help me with this? Thank you.

Once a week, when I try to view my website named www.jignal.com, I receive the following error message: Sorry! Private browsing is blocking this content on your computer. This content can only be viewed if you turn off ad-blocking or exit private browsing. There are no ad-blocking plugins installed on my computer and I do not use private browsing. Can you help me with this? Thank you.

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cor-el
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Firefox shows a purple shield instead of a gray shield at the left end of the location/address bar in case Enhanced Tracking Protection is blocking content. You can click shield icon for more detail and possibly disable the protection. You can check the Web Console for related messages blocked content.

If you use extensions ("3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions) that can block content (Adblock Plus, NoScript, DuckDuckGo PE, Disconnect, Ghostery, Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin) always make sure such extensions do not block content.

You can remove all data stored in Firefox for a specific domain via "Forget About This Site" in the right-click context menu of an history entry ("History -> Show All History" or "View -> Sidebar -> History").

Using "Forget About This Site" will remove all data stored in Firefox for this domain like history and cookies and passwords and exceptions and cache, so be cautious. If you have a password or other data for that domain that you do not want to lose then make sure to backup this data or make a note.

You can't recover from this 'forget' unless you have a backup of involved files.

If you revisit a 'forgotten' website then data for that website will be saved once again.