Today, I noticed that Google wasn’t loading on Mull (Firefox Fork). Switching useragent with the extension Chameleon makes the page load again.

    • Vincent Adultman@lemmy.worldOP
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      10 months ago

      Yeah but it’s more complicated than that. Do you think the average user that for some reason uses Firefox will try to find out why his Google page isn’t working? Last year Google was fined €2.5b due to unfair competition. This is not the first time, Google probably makes a lot of people switch doing these things. The top post of Lemmy is about Google turning itself into spyware and this just shows just how thats accurate.

      • Katlah@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        10 months ago

        I think the average Firefox user won’t be using anything Google (other than YouTube, but even then it’ll probably be through alternative frontends).

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            10 months ago

            I think the average Firefox user is smart enough to change the search engine… And disable Mozilla’s telemetry… And just not use stock Firefox…

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                10 months ago

                Because it is a privacy issue. Turning it off won’t turn off all telemetry though. You need to get into the weeds or use librewolf.

                Also make sure you turn off “experiments”, enable scrict mode, I stall ublock origin, and change the search engine.

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                  10 months ago

                  How is it a privacy issue? Reading their information page on telemetry data, they don’t collect personal data except for temporary collection of the IP address, which gets deleted every 14 days. Do they collect more than they claim?

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          10 months ago

          While your statement is true, I install Firefox on any computer I support (family & friends) because I understand it better, can talk them through stuff on the phone and so I can install an ad blocker and not.have to deal with all of that. So now I need to explain to family and friends that Google is to blame, but they don’t care and ask me to install “the normal browser”. Ugh.

          Also, I now have to deal with the Google-heads at work using this as an example of how chrome is the superior browser. Double ugh.