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ivan:
Joop, do you have NoScript as an addon in firefox?  I find it greatly reduces that sort of stupidity.

Joop:
Tried agent switcher. But Google doesn't buy it. Still lite version of maps.
There are a lot of sites which tell me what OS I use. So they can activate a javascript. I doubt that it will buy what agent switcher tells.

Dave Yeo:
Why would they need to know your OS for JavaScript? It is a interpreted language that is generally sandboxed and runs the same on all platforms. What they need to know is your browser, including version, or better, just ask what the JavaScript can handle. OS/2, Windows, Linux doesn't matter, what matters is Firefox vs Chrome vs IE vs Safari and their features.
Also they can probe for things like OpenGL support and when our browsers return unsupported, they don't serve up 3D content
Aren't you running an ancient version of Firefox? Some sites are only supporting current and current-1 versions while others may support the latest ESR release. Anything older then FF 38.x is now considered ancient and soon some sites will not support 38esr as FF41 will be out soon.

Joop:
I don't know Dave, ask Google. Why need they to know about everything you do with your computer? I can think of only one answer, money. Combined they can give advertisers a lot of information. Why do I need to get an unwanted advertisement about every minute a day? You switch on your tv, almost first you see is an add. Many sites have adds, Google, sidebar adds, your search delivers not what you asked for, but delivers first advertisers. How often do you get something which does have all words, only not the way you searched for? Even if you make it "hard".

I used everything whats available for OS/2, today its  24.8.1 or 31.8.0. Google service with lite version of maps. No matter what. It is not supported because I might make use of 3D, I don't , never did. My maps on paper are also not 3D. But now I can't dragging my route and the delivered routes by the light version are insane, shorter routes are available, but not in the light version. Its nice for getting an about how long or how much time, for the rest of it, junk ware.
 
But what bothers me is that its still a big firm which decides for you what you get to see depending on what hardware you have. And that's wrong, internet and all whats up there should be for everyone, not a limited few who has by accident bought Intel stuff with Microsoft code. Its as you say not of their concern, but the opposite is however true. Again, money, they force you to buy new computers with more processor power, more memory, bigger hd's so they can sell you more software which does nothing more then the previous version but needs more power, more room and more space on your hd. And even then it still doesn't work. Have you read what's needed for Windows 10?, insane when you set those figures next to whats needed for our OS which still does a lot of things more and better then Windows 10 can do. For good order, I don't have it about what's on the "dvd", but what's installed to get it going.

dcull:
Probably not an answer to this, but have you tried Quant?
https://www.qwant.com/
Its a French based search engine that seems to work as well as Google, without the ads and clutter
just a thought

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