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  • Playing games was fine - it was loading things up that has sucked. I haven’t gotten dota up on the SSD yet, but on the HDD it was real clunky and would half-load the landing page and sit there for ~10 seconds.

    The biggest difference, though, is that firefox now opens immediately instead of taking ~10 seconds after clicking the icon
















  • At least some of these tools change their “user agent” to be whatever google’s crawler is.

    When you browse in, say, Firefox, one of the headers that firefox sends to the website is “I am using Firefox” which might affect how the website should display to you or let the admin knkw they need firefox compatibility (or be used to fingerprint you…).

    You can just lie on that, though. Some privacy tools will change it to Chrome, since that’s the most common.

    Or, you say “i am the google web crawler”, which they let past the paywall so it can be added to google.