Reporting it to Mozilla can still help. Firefox has a built-in list of sites to fake the user agent header for, reporting it could land this site on that list as well.
I doubt it’s malice as often as a cost saving measure presented in a scummy/lazy way.
The simple fact is that all browsers load pages differently.
If you want to minimise cost, you’ll optimise the site to the most popular browsers.
Firefox, unfortunately, is at the very bottom of the popular browser list.
There’s absolutely nothing else that most sites gain by promoting Google.
Except, as of recent, a lower likelihood of user having an ad blocker.
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Oh, I agree with you. But the more we publicize this, the more pressure we can apply to site devs to support multiple browsers.
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Reporting it to Mozilla can still help. Firefox has a built-in list of sites to fake the user agent header for, reporting it could land this site on that list as well.
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Oh yeah, not just UA overrides but other fixes as well. You can see them at about:compat
I doubt it’s malice as often as a cost saving measure presented in a scummy/lazy way.
The simple fact is that all browsers load pages differently.
If you want to minimise cost, you’ll optimise the site to the most popular browsers.
Firefox, unfortunately, is at the very bottom of the popular browser list.
There’s absolutely nothing else that most sites gain by promoting Google.
Except, as of recent, a lower likelihood of user having an ad blocker.
In the case of Pearson, malice is a safe assumption.