{"id":359,"date":"2021-01-20T00:43:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T08:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bclary.com\/blog\/?p=359"},"modified":"2021-01-21T14:45:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T22:45:06","slug":"marketwatch-userzoom-promote-google-chrome-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bclary.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/20\/marketwatch-userzoom-promote-google-chrome-monopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"MarketWatch \/ UserZoom promote Google Chrome Monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While reading an article on MarketWatch<\/a> using Firefox Nightly I was prompted to fill out a user survey. I’ve stopped responding to most of these types of requests since they have become more of a data gathering exercise about me rather than actually attempting to find out what I think of the site itself. Since I like MarketWatch and haven’t seen this request before, I accepted the prompt this time and prepared to see what they wanted to know. Unfortunately, I was blocked by the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Unfortunately,<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Needless to say, I didn’t switch to Chrome to fill out their survey and now have a negative opinion of MarketWatch<\/a> and UserZoom<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update January 21<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did send in feedback to MarketWatch regarding the situation but did not receive a reply. Just now I visited again and received another prompt for a user survey and accepted in order to see if they had fixed the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Close but no cigar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess detecting Firefox is just too hard. For the record, my user agent string is Mozilla\/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:86.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/86.0<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recommend Browser detection using the user agent<\/a> if you really must<\/strong> block browsers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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