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st3fan

If you change the User Agent to Chrome you can see that it works pretty well on Firefox actually.

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Yes. Google has been doing this for years, they serve a degraded version of YouTube as well.

Get an add-on to change your user-agent to latest chrome

But then it looks like everyone is using chrome in marketshare reports...

You only need to do so for Google sites. Maybe an enhancement on Firefox Containers that only do this for Google sites.

There's an addon that does exactly this: https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/chrome-ua-on-goo...

This addon works but it caused me to see a lot more captcha puzzles. My recaptcha v3 score changes from 0.1 to 0.9 depending on whether the extension is enabled.

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