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We found similar issues at https://you.com https://you.com a while back. We just had to be good for more query families. Now we have both the walmart locations

We found similar issues at https://you.com https://you.com a while back. We just had to be good for more query families. Now we have both the walmart locations in a map app, eg https://you.com/search?q=walmart https://you.com/search?q=walmart and coding related useful results, eg. https://you.com/search?q=how%20do%20I%20find%20all%20files%20containing%20specific%20text%20on%20Linux&fromSearchBar=true https://you.com/search?q=how%20do%20I%20find%20all%20files%2... or https://you.com/search?q=pyspark%20filter%20array%20element https://you.com/search?q=pyspark%20filter%20array%20element

Ennea 5y ago
Too bad you.com does not work in Firefox with the "beacon" function disabled (beacon.enabled set to false in about:config).
- richardsocher 5y ago
  Hi Ennea, Can you help me understand why you make this particular change in the config?
  - Ennea 5y ago
    To be perfectly honest, I cannot even remember making that change, but also couldn't find any info on whether Firefox or some extension may have done this. I will leave it disabled, however, because its purpose seems to be analytics, and opting out of (at least some of) them this way seems like a good idea. Since disabling it this way removes the `sendBeacon` function from existence, you should just be prepared to properly handle its absence.
    - radicality 5y ago
      Is it always about analytics? Or is it ocassionaly also a useful API for other tasks? I know little about front end JS dev, but the docs say it’s just a way to send an asynchronous request (no response) with a guarantee that the the request will be sent out, even if the page starts unloading. That’s apparently not a guarantee with the two other to send requests - XmlHttpRequest and fetch api.
      - 312c 5y ago
        The beacon api was created specifically to be a lightweight method for telemetry/logging
- scim-knox-twox 5y ago
  I never even tried you.com because I see nothing (I don't enable JS for sites I don't trust).

Ennea 5y ago

Too bad you.com does not work in Firefox with the "beacon" function disabled (beacon.enabled set to false in about:config).

richardsocher 5y ago
Hi Ennea, Can you help me understand why you make this particular change in the config?
- Ennea 5y ago
  To be perfectly honest, I cannot even remember making that change, but also couldn't find any info on whether Firefox or some extension may have done this. I will leave it disabled, however, because its purpose seems to be analytics, and opting out of (at least some of) them this way seems like a good idea. Since disabling it this way removes the `sendBeacon` function from existence, you should just be prepared to properly handle its absence.
  - radicality 5y ago
    Is it always about analytics? Or is it ocassionaly also a useful API for other tasks? I know little about front end JS dev, but the docs say it’s just a way to send an asynchronous request (no response) with a guarantee that the the request will be sent out, even if the page starts unloading. That’s apparently not a guarantee with the two other to send requests - XmlHttpRequest and fetch api.
    - 312c 5y ago
      The beacon api was created specifically to be a lightweight method for telemetry/logging
scim-knox-twox 5y ago
I never even tried you.com because I see nothing (I don't enable JS for sites I don't trust).