When uploading observations the CV suggestions are way off and mainly suggest bats. [Screenshot from 2021-08-14 18-19-16 (1)] If I look at the same observation after it’s uploaded CV seems to be working correctly. [Screenshot from 2021-08-14 18-20-32 (2)] Using the website on Firefox 90.0.2.

I’ve figured out what’s causing this. I had privacy.resistFingerprinting enabled in Firefox, if I disable it the CV suggestions work as expected in the uploader. It was also making it so that I couldn’t use ctrl+click in the uploader to select multiple observations (dragging a box around them still …

Is there anything in the file name you have for this picture that reminds bats? (system uses file names to autofill the id). And is a location added on the first screenshot? The fact it thinks Whooper Swan is the main possibility on the second screenshot is still weird btw.

File names are the same as I always upload with and are pretty much what the camera names them (the photo in the swan observation is “DSC_0883_ue.jpg”). The photo has the location in it’s metadata and is added on the first screenshot.

I don’t know then what triggers it, for me it shows normal suggestions in uploader [image]

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this in other people’s observations as well, there are some common things (though perhaps not ones a layperson would easily recognize) that have been blatantly misidentified, I assume due to CV recommendation, but when I go to enter an ID the suggested one is correct.

[image] ryanhodnett: resistFingerprinting I just added aa exception forr inaturalist.org and now it is working again. about:config, privacy.resistFingerprinting.exemptedDomains

I can replicate and I’ll let our devs know, but since this is an experimental feature in Firefox, I’m not sure we can promise a fix.

When I enabled privacy.resistFingerprinting I see this error in the console: Blocked https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/upload from extracting canvas data because no user input was detected I don’t see that when it’s disabled. Reading up on how privacy.resistFingerprinting works, I see it ap…

CV suggestions are different (and mainly bats) when uploading

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CV suggestions are different (and mainly bats) when uploading

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