Today, I noticed that Google wasn’t loading on Mull (Firefox Fork). Switching useragent with the extension Chameleon makes the page load again.
I was wondering why I was getting a blank screen earlier
maybe just dont use google
Competently, if op really needs to maybe use whoogle or startpage (there is some debate on if they private or not since they were bought by system1, more info about it https://restoreprivacy.com/startpage-system1-privacy-one-group/ )
I use startpage and according to privacy guides its private
wouldnt really trust them tbh. There are lots of better alternatives
I don’t wanna use duckduck go and don’t trust random searx instances, so I feel stuck with startpage
Something something anti-trust?
Unlikely
And so it begins.
I noticed this today, too. I didnft know how long it’d been going on, since I haven’t tried to visit a Google page in a couple of weeks.
Thank goodness for SearX. This will also absolutely drive up the amount I visit Bing.
Yeah, that is sus…I just use !bang in duckduckgo though, and I get results even with Noscript and Ublock on…
!g some search
Works in Mull…but yeah google.com shows blank even with extensions turned off. Meh, I haven’t been on Google in a long while now. Too many decent altermatives to care.
Heh. I was skeptical this was true fired up mull and sure enough still displaying nothing.
Much better results and faster
I have a really hard time getting good local/region specific results for products, I mostly get US or UK results which are utterly useless to me since I’m not located either places. I’ve tried all sorts of shenanigans to limit the search to my area/country but it’s not really effective.
Since a few months ago I get so many AI generated blog articles as top results with ddg (a lot with google as well, but less so)
It loads googles consent page for me. I got a blank page at first but I had to temporarily allow google connections in ublock origin to get it to load
yep, it straight up doesn’t load, what a shitshow
It seems to be fixed now:
https://status.search.google.com/incidents/hySMmncEDZ7Xpaf9i32C
