www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed
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Re: www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed
#2https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/131916#issuecom...
This is entirely server-side UA sniffing going wrong. You get an empty HTML doc, only a doctype, with a Firefox Android UA. You can reproduce this with curl and it seems that this affects all UA strings with versions >= 65. <=64 work.
Re: www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed
#3Rather embarrassing that they didn't notice this in testing, but it only affects the homepage and not searches from the address bar
Re: www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed
#49 minutes ago:
> Since this has now been posted to HN, I'll be locking this thread. This bugtracker is a work place, not a discussion forum.
We have a bad fame.
Re: www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed
#5Google partners with Mozilla to deliver a completely ad-free search experience.
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#6Rather embarrassing that they didn't notice this in testing, but it only affects the homepage and not searches from the address bar
They probably did.
However wanted to screw Firefox users the same way as the YouTube slowdown.
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#7Great screenshot
https://camo.githubusercontent.com/16a554571b3cea973d2b73464...
Re: www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed
#8I didn't expect to laugh but the screenshot (i.e., pure white rectangle) has tickled me.
Re: www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed
#9Rather embarrassing that they didn't notice this in testing, but it only affects the homepage and not searches from the address bar
They probably did. However wanted to screw Firefox users the same way as the YouTube slowdown.
Similar to the google image search on Firefox mobile, which has been broken for how many years now?
Re: www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed
#10Rather embarrassing that they didn't notice this in testing, but it only affects the homepage and not searches from the address bar
They probably did. However wanted to screw Firefox users the same way as the YouTube slowdown.
Seems unlikely they'd want to sabotage Firefox.
Google is Firefox' primary source of income, and Firefox is strategically crucial token competition that stands between Google and an antitrust lawsuit of the sort Microsoft faced in the early 2000s (where Microsoft were basically a technicality away from being broken up).