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.

If AOC had emailed her tax info out you know damn well that Fox, Newsmax and the rest of the GOP propaganda machine would not have hesitated to publish every detail and it would be her own damned fault. The idea that the Republicans would ever abide by anything resembling a political golden rule is credulous at best and it is one of the things that has created the right wing control of all three branches of government .

Tuberville is the very incarnation of stupid, created his own problem and deserves every bit of it. Now he’s going to learn about the Streisand Effect and he’ll deserve that too.

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 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.

I don’t sign in unless there’s some reason to. In this case Google is using cell towers to determine my phone’s location while in Mexico (and on my VPN) and then applying that location to everything on my Spectrum IP.

Interestingly Google has never done this when I’m using a VPN on a cloud server instead of my home server.

My neighbors (on the same Spectrum subnet) aren’t seeing this so it only affects my IP address. Google doesn’t give a crap about single user problems, in fact I think they’re doing this to discourage VPN use.

This happens on devices that have never been in Mexico. On those I took with me I’ve deleted cookies, cache, and used different browsers. Even allowing location on our phones and PCs and then updating the Google location on their website is only a temporary fix and as soon as cookies are cleared everything’s back in Mexico.

Way more than 5% where I am. Canadian tourism has dropped 80%.

I live in an area with a huge number of Canadian snowbirds in a normal year. This year there are almost none.

The SC has no authority over state laws unless they find them unconstitutional or conflict with federal laws. I don’t think even the 6 GOP justices would go that far.

Leona Helmsley was a prophet: “We don’t pay taxes. The little people pay taxes.”