Sending shit to my brother, texted hello. He got it, sent a bitchute link right after and nothing. Vice versa for both. Are they actively not sending them????
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Something I found.
If google is your default search it will take a valid URL and treat it like a search.
It comes back as a google search result instead of the URL.
I use metacrawler as my default search on Firefox (desktop)
You will need the plugin --- Add custom search engine
You will need a default search string ---- https://www.metacrawler.com/serp?q=%s
Also, with Firefox preferences --- Add search bar in toolbar
This leaves the other bar just for URLs.
TLDR: having google as your default search can jack with you.
Besides changing your search (personally, I use a searx instance - kiwi on your phone lets you change your default, brave lets you on your desktop), I have found that my ISP is intercepting my "bad" URLs and sending me to their "search."
I use a router that I run DD-WRT on because I need control to push some computers through a VPN and others have free access (work laptop, primarily, that is on the work VPN and my gaming PC so that Steam doesn't kill my account). I am able to block the crap my ISP, Cox, is forcing on users by setting my DNSMasq options to block the IPs they are using to re-direct: bogus-nxdomain=68.105.28.11 bogus-nxdomain=68.105.28.12 bogus-nxdomain=68.105.28.45 bogus-nxdomain=68.105.28.46 bogus-nxdomain=92.242.140.2
I realize your average user doesn't have this choice. If we pay for internet access, we pay for internet access. We are not paying for censorship, but there it is.