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Re:Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA ... by aragilar on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @06:55AM (#38925075)
It does seem unlikely, but playing with the example UA in curl (as noted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38925015) seems to show it's the combination of "Android" and "Firefox" that causes this behaviour. I wonder if any other mobile browsers are broken?
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Re:Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA ... by kevincox on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @12:18PM (#38928778)
A far more likely explanation is simply that two features or workarounds are enabled, maybe "Android" triggers a prompt to install Chrome or something and "Firefox" triggers some workaround code. However these interact poorly and cause a crash.

If they wanted to sabotage Firefox I doubt they would choose to send a blank page. They would probably send infinite captchas or just disable most features (which they already do).

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