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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by Ennea on Friday March 18, 2022 @07:08PM (#30728780)
you.com does not even load in Firefox with beacon.enabled set to false in about:config.
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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by richardsocher on Thursday March 31, 2022 @02:01PM (#30870332)
Hi Ennea, Honest question since this is the first time I hear this issue. What's the use case the changing that setting in your config?

From my limited understanding whatever beacon does can also be done in the backend it just makes it a little more complicated for developers?

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