Airbnb auth redesign, Firefox ad blocking, and Cloudflare script injection top frontend news

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This week's frontend digest covers Airbnb's overhaul of its decade-old login system, which now lets the server determine the optimal authentication method per user, reducing duplicate accounts and SMS costs while improving success rates. Firefox for iOS has quietly introduced an experimental EasyList-based ad blocker that operates at the network level, though it excludes search ads and Mozilla's own sponsored content. A developer reported that switching nameservers to Cloudflare for an R2 bucket caused analytics scripts to be automatically injected into a plain HTML site without explicit consent, requiring manual opt-out steps. Deno's open-source project celld aims to bring Cloudflare's Durable Objects model to self-hosted infrastructure using SQLite-backed objects, currently in alpha. Rounding out the week, Firefox remains the only major browser still supporting uBlock Origin as Chromium-based browsers phase out Manifest V2 extensions, and a piece argues ActivityPub succeeded by building on familiar, unglamorous web standards like HTTP and JSON.

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