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

  • Vincent AdultmanOP
    331·
    9 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.

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      61·
      9 months ago

      I honestly think more people are willing to switch than you think

    • KatlahEnglish
      611·
      9 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).

      • admiralteal
        222·
        9 months ago

        Google is literally the default firefox search engine.

        • KatlahEnglish
          79·
          9 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…

          • sxt
            241·
            9 months ago

            That is wildly optimistic

          • LazerDickMcCheese
            20·
            9 months ago

            All of the people I convinced to make the switch would agree with you

          • dubyakay
            53·
            9 months ago

            Why would I disable Mozilla’s telemetry though?

            • Possibly linuxEnglish
              12·
              9 months ago9 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.

              • dubyakay
                61·
                9 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?

                • Possibly linuxEnglish
                  22·
                  9 months ago

                  There information page will just tell you what you want to here. Look at Firefoxs network access and you should see it still try to reach out.

      • AnonymouseEnglish
        110·
        9 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.