You logged in yesterday and there was no response. It seemed you were ignoring the questions. Sorry to make that assumption.

You’re right, that’s really disturbing and there’s no reason to verify age for every single app. It’s just another government shot across the bow for open source apps.

You make an unsubstantiated claim, then fail to answer all questions about where it’s happening or who is sending you the notification and what’s involved.

I call bullshit.

Registering what with the government? Your app, phone #, account?

If there are no remaining mainstream browsers that support ad blockers that pendulum is going to take a long time to swing back.

Google doesn’t even need to get their hands dirty like that. IMO all they need to do is continue making it difficult for companies to support Firefox when designing their websites. That, in addition to making sure companies know that Google is tirelessly working to make sure Chrome won’t work with ad blockers is going to eventually kill Firefox completely.

I don’t feel bad for people who whine about “well, I have to go into the settings and change a thing”. How much did you pay for that browser again? Complacency is what keeps people in abusive ecosystems. Don’t be complacent or you’re part of the problem.

I’m having trouble making any sense of your word salad. Are you triggered because someone dared criticize a bonehead move by Mozilla, or are you upset that anyone’s using Firefox’s “abusive ecosystem” in the first place? Neither? Both?

Firefox has lost nearly all of their users and now has less than 4% of the market. Adding a “feature” that makes computers virtually unusable without any indication as to why is yet another reason that’s happened. Nevertheless, if poor implementation of a feature makes for an “abusive ecosystem” it means that by your definition all software is part of an abusive ecosystem.

Interesting running those… Haven’t had to worry about benchmarks on my system, both Chrome and FF are plenty fast. I do wonder how the performance of Chrome with ads would compare to Firefox with the same ads blocked? Every once in a while I use some one else’s computer and can’t believe how many animated ads show up on pages I frequent.

Do you just put up with the ads or block them another way?

Mozilla thought it would be a great idea to install AI features in Firefox and that brilliant decision may be causing your issue. Those AI features use an absurd amount of resources on some websites and when they’re enabled on my laptop, FF regularly shows ~50% CPU.

When all that BS is turned off CPU use drops to less than 2% most of the time. Search for “AI Controls” in settings and try shutting them all off.

The anti li-ion crowd here is really strange. I wonder if they’re also anti-vaccine?

Dell bios settings often include battery charge limit settings. I have mine set to a 70% limit which provides hours of backup with the display off.

Modern laptop batteries when kept cool and undamaged are extremely safe despite what you might read in these comments, especially when you limit the charge. Parking your car in your garage is hundreds of times more hazardous.

The bad news is, if you’re not on Team Tux, you’re going to have to pay $60 for Brave Origin. Granted, you only need to buy it once, and you’ll get unlimited activations across all of your devices.

It’s amazing people still believe this BS.

¡Gracias, primo! Espero verte en el malecón.

It is always odd to find someone who has absolutely no clue that other people have different needs and priorities.

Others report the same issue including someone commenting in this posting. From what I can tell Google is targeting private VPN servers on residential IPs.

I’ve used a different private VPN running on a commercial cloud server when traveling internationally. Google has never fucked with the location of that IP.

They were serving you pages in Spanish? That is really fucked up even for Google.

Do you believe a multinational company’s business polices are targeting you specifically each time you have a problem?

I believe Google specifically does this to discourage VPN use. It screws up their primary reason for existing: advertising revenue.

It’s already my primary search engine, but unfortunately it’s not a full Google replacement.

I avoid changing the MAC to pull a new address because family members actively use the VPN server via DNS and it can take a while for DDNS to update everywhere, but that’s what I’m going to have to do.

Whois correctly returns Charter Communications and every single IP location service shows a U.S. location. This is strictly Google’s fuckery.