Both Firefox and Waterfox browsers re-direct Conservative shopping site to Google

September 1, 2024 | re_tail20

[re_tail20]

There are plenty of good web browsers to use, and Firefox and its Waterfox spinoff, most of the time, are good. But I noticed something the other day about both of them. I was trying to log onto this Conservative shopping site called “Patriot Depot”, and when I would put the web address in, it would automatically re-direct to Google. This was true for both of them. I tried this with my other browsers, and the site came on just fine with them.

Perhaps some lefty programmer at Firefox put a re-direct as a practical joke. If true, given that it lowers my opinion of his company’s browser, the joke is on him.

[dangus]

More likely a virus attack. There was a big one that redirected Google, for instance, to Yahoo.

[Openurmind]

Good catch... That is how these issues are found. You have to be observant.

[sauropod]

Precisely.

[God luvs America]

I just tried it with the following web address; https://patriotdepot.com/ and it went directly to the site. I also types in patriotdepot.com into the web address bar on firefox and it went directly to the site- not google

[Openurmind]

Is Google your chosen default search engine in Firefox? Go change it in your settings to DuckDuck go and try it again.

[GOPJ]

I like Firefox - and you’re right - this could be a virus attack. Let’s hope Firefox gets it fixed... soon.

[lysie]

For later.

[catnipman]

“I just tried it with the following web address; https://patriotdepot.com/ and it went directly to the site. I also types in patriotdepot.com into the web address bar on firefox and it went directly to the site- not google”

ditto here ... no probs with FF64 OR chrome

sometimes though, you have to double quote links to tell the browser to go to the link instead of searching for the link ...

[dagunk]

DuckDuckGo
“patriot post”
Worked fine

[re_tail20]

I spotted this about a month ago, actually, for both browsers. Since then, I’ve updated both when they’ve come down, but still the same result. Perhaps I’ll uninstall both, and reinstall, and see if that works.

[Openurmind]

Back when Cryptojacking was a new thing the only way to tell was if your fan and resources were screaming even though you were letting it sit there idle doing nothing. You had to be observant enough to know that there was absolutely no way it should be burning that many resources for no reason.

[ConservativeMind]

Choose DuckDuckGo or another search engine as your default search provider in the browser.

This is easy to do.

[bigbob]

Works, and shows as a sponsored link on Google search, meaning the company pays to make it come up on top of the results . A good business decision.

[ealgeone]

Just tried it and the search results took me straight to Patriot Depot.

[NoLibZone]

Marketing post.

Pure BS post to promote a site.

[Openurmind]

“Marketing post.

Pure BS post to promote a site.”

Know what? That thought came to me too. Considering the username...

[Salman]

Just tried it. Didn't happen on my system.

Maybe your problem isn't Firefox?

[discostu]

Works for me. I’d guess DNS problems.

[Salman]

Just checked something else.

What a helluva lot of extraneous scripts run on Patriot Depot.

Sorry folks. Not shopping there.