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Re:Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA ... by ptek on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @12:40PM (#38929100)
If it is a old video (3 days), just search for it in DDG, and just watch it via DDG.
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Re:Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA ... by code_biologist on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @01:39PM (#38930072)
This is not a solution that will work for mom and pop. Exactly the kind of workaround that relegates Firefox to being a "techies only" browser.
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Re:Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA ... by Horpostiated on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @03:14PM (#38931425)
Firefox's irrelevance is why it's regulated to techies. And sure, you're free to blame Google for some of that, but let's not pretend Mozilla has always been some wellspring of user-pleasing decision making.
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