Saturday, May 19. 2012
Trapped in Google?
Whenever I search in Aurora on my phone, I'm taken to a stripped-down version of the page with the header "this page adapted for your browser".
How do I fix this? I'd rather fix it with a Google preference, but barring that I expect that Firefox has a way for me to regain control of my online experience?
I accidentally had comments turned off, but :kang suggested using the Phony add-on to emulate Firefox Desktop.
Yeah, that really annoys me too.
All the fun of broken/unreadable sites with the added bonus of being monitored by Google's proxies...
I sent a complaining feedback 'bout it, but they appear set on this irritating course.
Phony does work, but then you don't have the Android UA for sites that could use that information :(
Another solution is just switching to Duck Duck Go.
Phony didn't help, actually.
But I switched to Yahoo for searches on mobile. I might do the same for desktop..
Odd. Worked for me. Admittedly haven't tried it in a few weeks.
Wonder if it requires some cookie clearing or something silly like that.
But. Yeah, they really are shooting themselves in the foot on this one.
Google fixed this. If you are still seeing it, you should file a bug, so we can be sure to get it fixed.
Indeed - I should have updated the post when that occurred. I am copied on the bug where they fixed it.
